Samuel Hollingsworth Stout

Major Samuel Hollingsworth Stout (March 3, 1822 – September 18, 1903) was an American farmer, slaveholder, teacher and surgeon. In the Antebellum Era, he was the owner of a farm with slaves in Giles County, Tennessee. During the American Civil War, he was a surgeon to the Army of Tennessee and later in charge of sixty hospitals for the Confederate States Army in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. He later taught at the Atlanta Medical College (now known as the Emory University School of Medicine), and he practised medicine in Texas. He was a co-founder and the founding dean of the Baylor College of Medicine in 1902-1903.

Samuel Hollingsworth Stout
BornMarch 3, 1822
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedSeptember 18, 1903
Clarendon, Texas, U.S.
EducationClassical and Mathematical Seminary
Alma materUniversity of Nashville
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
OccupationFarmer, slaveholder, surgeon, teacher
Spouse(s)Martha Moore Abernathy
Children7
Parent(s)Samuel Van Dyke Stout
Catherine Tannehill
RelativesJohn Wilkins, Jr. (maternal great-uncle)
William Wilkins (maternal great-uncle)
Wilkins F. Tannehill (maternal uncle)

Early life

Samuel Hollingsworth Stout was born on March 3, 1822 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2][3] His father, Samuel Van Dyke Stout, was the owner of a carriage factory and the mayor of Nashville.[4] He had three brothers and one sister.[5] He was raised as a Presbyterian.[5]

Stout was educated at the Classical and Mathematical Seminary in Nashville.[4] He graduated from the University of Nashville in 1839 with an A.B., and he earned an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's medical school in 1848.[6][2][4]

Career

Stout became a surgeon for the United States Navy but resigned as the American-Mexican War was coming to an end.[2] Instead, he practised medicine in Giles County, Tennessee, where he owned a farm with slaves.[4] He also became an early member of the Tennessee Historical Society.[4]

At the outset of the American Civil War, on May 17, 1861, Stout became a major of cavalry in the Confederate States Army.[1] He was a surgeon to the Third Tennessee Infantry from May to November 1861, and to Gordon Hospital in Nashville from November 1861 to February 1862.[4] He subsequently moved to Chattanooga, where he was in charge of hospitals for the Army of Tennessee.[4] By the summer of 1864, his responsibilities had expanded to sixty Confederate hospitals in the Southern states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.[4] By the end of the war, he had lost his Giles County farm.[4]

Stout was a professor of surgery at the Atlanta Medical College, later known as the Emory University School of Medicine, from 1866 to 1867.[2][3] He practised medicine in Georgia until 1882, when he moved to Cisco, Texas; he taught and practised medicine in Dallas.[4] Additionally, he was a co-founder of the Medical Department of the University of Dallas (now known as the Baylor College of Medicine), and he served as its founding dean from 1902 to 1903.[7]

Personal life and death

Stout married Martha Moore Abernathy in 1848.[4] They had seven children.[4] He died on September 18, 1903 in Clarendon, Texas.[1][2][3]

References
  1. "Samuel Hollingsworth Stout Biographical File". Eskind Biomedical Library. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  2. "Collection Title: Samuel Hollingsworth Stout Papers, 1843-1911". The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. UNC University Libraries. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  3. "A Guide to the Samuel Hollingsworth Stout Papers, 1837 (1860-1865) 1902". Briscoe Center for American History. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  4. Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. (December 25, 2009). "Samuel Hollingsworth Stout". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
  5. Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R. (1994). Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 24–26. ISBN 9781570031557. OCLC 39872235.
  6. General Alumni Society (1922). General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
  7. "Penn's Leadership in Higher Education Selected Rosters of Alumni, Faculty and Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania who have served as: Founders and First Chief Executives of Other Institutions". Penn University Archives & Records Center. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved June 4, 2017.

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