Valentine Mott
Valentine Mott (August 20, 1785 – April 26, 1865) was an American surgeon.
Life
Valentine Mott was born at
He tied the
After spending seven years in Europe (1834-1841) Mott returned to New York where he was on the founding faculty of the university medical college of New York, now
A collection of his correspondence is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.[2]
Family
In 1849, the same year he was elected President of the New York Academy of Medicine, Mott and his wife, the former Louisa Dunmore Munn, moved to a four-story Italianate brownstone mansion at #1 Gramercy Park West with their large family. The couple had 9 children: 6 sons, including Alexander Brown Mott (1826–1889), Valentine Mott, Jr. (1822–1854), and Thaddeus P. Mott; and 3 daughters, including Louisa Dunmore Mott, who in 1842 married the surgeon William Holme Van Buren. A son of Alexander B. Mott, the surgeon Dr. Valentine Mott (1852–1918) studied under Louis Pasteur in Paris and was the first to introduce rabies vaccine into the U.S.[3]
Upon his death in 1865, Mott was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
References
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mott, Valentine". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 930. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Valentine Mott Correspondence 1807-1864". National Library of Medicine.
- ^ "Dr. Valentine Mott Dies Suddenly at Age 65". NY Times. June 20, 1918.