Provenance Authority File

The following list shows the previous owners of books and manuscripts in the Special Collections Vault in the Department of Historical Collections, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. Evidence of their ownership appears in parentheses at the end of each entry.

Abbott, Maude Elizabeth, 1869-1840. Canadian pathologist, cardiologist, and medical museum curator. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, pp. 3-4. (autograph signature)
Aberdeen, Eoin, d. 1986. Australian pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon. Obit.: Lancet 1986. (autograph signature)
Anthony, Eugene W., 1914- Class of 1937. Ophthalmologist. (autograph signature)
Arnold, John S., fl. 1871. (autograph signature)
Ash, Rachel, 1893-1976. (autograph signature)
Avery, Horatio C., fl. 1851. (autograph signature)
Balch, Israel. (autograph signature)
Ball, Charles, fl. 1835-1836. (autograph signature)
Barker, David S. (autograph signature)
Barton, Edward, d. 1821. (autograph signature)
Bauer, William J. (autograph signature)
Beardsley, W.W., fl. 19th cent (autograph signature)
Behrendt, Douglas M. (autograph signature)
Berger, F. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Bingay, L.P. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Bishop, John L. (autograph signature)
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910. Class of 1849. The first woman in the world to earn an M.D. degree by successfully completing a full course of study at a regular medical school. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, pp. 71-72; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 105-107. (bookplate)
Bliss, James Cotton, 1791-1855. (autograph signature; lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Bond, Henry, 1790-1859. Dartmouth College Medical Class of 1817. Practitioner in Philadelphia. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 119. (autograph signature)
Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll, 1808-1892. Thoracic disease specialist and pioneer stethoscopist. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, p. 84; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 127-131. (autograph signature)
Brown, S.A., fl. 1869. (autograph signature)
Burlingham, H.D. Served during the Civil War in the U.S. Navy as Passed Assistant Surgeon With Rank of Lieutenant and later practiced medicine in Galesburg, Illinois. (autograph signature)
Busch, Price Truman, fl. 1875. (autograph signature)
Buser, Bess N. (record of gift)
Caliva, Francis. (autograph signature)
Cammock, William R., fl. 1917. (autograph signature)
Carnochan, John. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Carpenter, John I. (autograph signature)
Carpenter, Paul T. (bookplate)
Carroll, Daniel J., fl. 1826. University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1826. (autograph signature)
Carter, James. (autograph signature)
Carter, Laura. (autograph signature)
Cathcart, Martin, fl. ca. 1800. (autograph signature)
Celtin, F.[?] P., fl. 19th cent. (autograph signature)
Cheney, Amelia. (autograph signature)
Child, Jonathan, 1785-1860. (autograph signature)
Chovet, Abraham, 1704-1790. Philadelphia anatomist and surgeon; mentor of Edward Cutbush. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 223-224. (autograph signature)
Clarke, Edward Hammond, 1820-1877. Controversial medical educator at Harvard. Biog.:
Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, p. 138; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 230. (autograph signature)
Clarke, William A. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Colman, Anson. University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1832. As Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Botany from 1834 to 1836, one of the original six faculty of Geneva Medical College. (autograph signature; bookplate; lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Conning, John. (autograph signature; lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Coventry, Charles Brodhead, 1801-1875. As Professor of Obstetrics and Materia Medica from 1834 to 1840 and of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence from 1840 to 1853, one of the original six faculty of Geneva Medical College. (autograph signature)
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864. Physician, pharmacologist, and medical journalist. Biog.:
Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, p. 163; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 262-263. (autograph signature)
Cruttenden, Henry E. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Cuming, Robert. (autograph signature)
Cutbush, Edward, 1772-1843. University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1794. Naval surgeon. Founder and first Dean of Geneva Medical College. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 281-282. (autograph signature and bookplate)
de Rosa, Carlo, 1935- (autograph signature)
de Rosa, Daphine. (record of gift)
Dickinson, James T. (autograph signature)
Didama, Henry Darwin, 1823-1905. Albany Medical College Class of 1846. Dean of the Syracuse University College of Medicine. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 328.
Doane, A. Sydney. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Doran, R.E. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Doran, Robert Edwin. (record of gift, 1978)
Drach, John H. (autograph signature)
Dumford, Andrew. (autograph signature)
Ecker, Arthur David, 1913- Neurosurgeon and neurologist. (autograph signature, custom bookbinding, and bookplate)
Elsner, Henry Leopold, 1855-1916. The leading Syracuse practitioner of his time. Biog.:
Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 378. (autograph signature and bookplate)
Farini, May L. (autograph signature)
Ferris, Floyd T. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Flint, Austin, 1812-1886. "The American Laennec," specialist in internal medicine, prominent medical educator, president of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the American Medical Association. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, pp. 253-254; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 417-415. (autograph signature)
Francis, J.W. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Geer, Oliver P., d. 1895. (autograph signature)
Gerrish, Francis. (autograph signature)
Goodman, Donald C. (autograph signature)
Gould, George Milbry, 1848-1922. Jefferson Medical College Class of 1888. Ophthalmologist, medical lexicographer, and promoter of medical libraries. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 484-485. (record of gift)
Graham, H., fl. 1837. (autograph signature)
Gram, H.B. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Green, Caleb, 1819-1893. Class of 1844. Taught materia medica, pathology, and physiology at Geneva Medical College from 1855 to 1862. (bookplate)
Green, Henry Harper, 1837- (autograph signature)
Gunn, Moses, 1822-1887. Class of 1846. Dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, p. 312; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 510. (autograph signature)
Hale, Benjamin, 1797-1863. President of Geneva College (later Hobart and William Smith Colleges), parent of Geneva Medical College (later Upstate Medical University). (autograph signature)
Halsall, J. (bookplate)
Halsey, Gaius. (autograph signature)
Hamilton, Frank Hastings, 1813-1886. Prominent orthopedic surgeon, military surgeon, sanitarian, and author. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 519-520. (autograph signature)
Hart, James H. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Hayes, Charles Wells, 1828-1908. (autograph signature)
Heisig, David George, 1959- (record of gift)
Hibbard, David R. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Hodgkin, Thomas, 1798-1866. Eponymous describer of Hodgkin's Disease. (autograph signature)
Hoffman, R.K. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Holyoke, Edward Augustus, 1728-1829. Important Massachusetts practitioner. Biog.:
Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, pp. 360-361; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 588-589. (autograph signature)
Holyoke, Edward Augustus, 1796-1855. (autograph signature)
Hosack, David, 1769-1835. Prominent and controversial medical educator, botanist, and surgeon in New York City. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, pp. 366-367; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 600-601. (autograph signature)
Hughes, James W., 1807-1869. (autograph signature)
James, Thomas Chalkley, 1766-1835. Obstetrician. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 646-647. (autograph signature)
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945. Neurologist and psychiatrist. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 1, p. 394. (bookplate)
Kinzer, Esaias. University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1829. (autograph signature)
Kinzer, H.C. (bookplate)
Kirby, S.R. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Kissam, James A. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Kissam, R.S. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Knapp, Edwin Abbott, 1823-1890. Class of 1851. (autograph signature)
Knowes, Charles. (autograph signature)
Knowlton, Frank Pattengill, 1875-1964. (autograph signature)
Kutnewsky, J.K. (autograph signature)
Lawrence, Jonathan Samuel. (autograph signature)
Lewis, J.W. (autograph signature)
Linden, John. (autograph signature)
McComb, I.R. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
McComb, Jonathan R. (autograph signature)
McLane, James Woods, 1839-1912. (autograph signature)
McNaughton, Peter, 1800-1875. (autograph signature)
MacNevin, W.J. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Marks, Henry Elsner, 1890-1970. (autograph signature)
Marshall, Charles. (autograph signature)
Matthews, William A. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Merighi, Clarence B.F. (autograph signature)
Meyer, Robert.
Miller, Adam, 1819- (autograph signature)
Morton, Samuel George. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Moseley, Samuel, Jr. (autograph signature)
Mueller, Justus Frederick, 1902- (autograph signature)
Norman, Haskell F., 1915-1996. Psychiatrist and bibliophile. Obit.: San Francisco Chronicle, 20 December 1996. (bookplate)
Onderdonk, Henry, 1804-1886. (autograph signature)
Orrick, John C., fl. 1832. American physician. (autograph signature)
Paine, Robert Troup. (autograph signature)
Peckham, W.H. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Pennell, Richard. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Pfaff, Otto, d. 1948. City University of New York Medical Class of 1888. Practitioner in Oneida, New York; New York Central Railroad surgeon; World War I medical officer; public health administrator; county coroner; postmaster; city health officer; water commissioner; mayor of Oneida; and president of the Fifth District Branch of the Medical Society of the State of New York. (autograph signature)
Plant, William Tomlinson, 1836-1898. Naval surgeon in Civil War. Professor of Pediatrics at Syracuse University College of Medicine. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), p. 971. (autograph signature)
Porter, Daniel. (autograph signature)
Post, M. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Power, William. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Price, Elias C., d. 1902. (autograph signature)
Read, George. (autograph signature)
Roberts, William C. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Roland, Kevin. (autograph signature)
Rose, James D. Class of 1958. (record of gift)
Rose, Marie C. Class of 1957. (record of gift)
Santen, Hermann. (autograph signature)
Schenck, Peter Lawrence. (autograph signature)
Schmidt, J.W. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Seal, T. (autograph signature)
Smith, D. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Smith, Stephen, 1823-1922. Surgeon, sanitarian, founder and first president of the American Public Health Association. Biog.: Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kaufmann, Galishoff, and Savitt (1984), v. 2, ___; Dictionary of American Medical Biography, ed. Kelly and Burrage (1928), pp. 1138-1139. (stamp and bookplate)
Spencer, James D. (autograph signature)
Spitzer, Edward Louis, 1870?-1930. (autograph signature)
Stearns, John. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Stevens, A.H. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Stevens, Robert E. (autograph signature)
Stuart, David, b. 1753. (autograph signature)
Stuart, James. (autograph signature)
Tagen, C.H. von. (autograph signature)
Talbot, E.T. (autograph signature)
Taylor, Isaac E. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Thornton, J.H. (autograph signature)
Ticknor, Caleb Bingham. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Tousey, Leoramus, fl. 1824. (autograph signature)
Tucker, Isaac. (autograph signature)
Vaché, A.F. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Voight, Otto F. (autograph signature)
Wahl, William Henry, 1848-1909. (autograph signature)
Wallace, William. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Washington, James A. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Watson, John. (lists of donors in Geneva Medical College circulars, 1836-1838)
Watson, Jonathan. (autograph signature)
Weiskotten, Herman Gates, 1884-1972. (autograph signature)
Willmarth, Charles L. (autograph signature and bookplate)
Wilson, C.H. (autograph signature)
Wister, Jones, d. 1857. (autograph signature)
Wolfensberger, Wolf. (record of gift)
Wright, Arthur M. (autograph signature and bookplate)
Young, Augustus Adelbert, 1849-1934. (autograph signature)