Jared Potter Kirtland

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Jared Potter Kirtland 1866
Jared Potter Kirtland 1870

Jared Potter Kirtland (born November 10, 1793 in Wallingford , Connecticut , † December 10, 1877 in East Rockport (now Lakewood ), Ohio ) was an American doctor, politician and naturalist (especially zoologist ).

Jared Kirtland, son of a real estate agent, grew up partly with his grandfather Jared Potter († 1811), a country doctor who also financed his medical studies for him with his inheritance, initially with well-known doctors in the region. In 1813, Kirtland was the first student to enroll at Yale College of Medicine because his grandfather's plan to study in Edinburgh could not begin because of the British-American War . Kirtland was also trained by the chemist Benjamin Silliman and the botanist Ives. Kirtland then moved briefly to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , before graduating with an MD from Yale in 1815 .

After graduating, Kirtland first practiced in Wallingford before moving to Durham , Connecticut in 1818 . After his wife's death in 1823, he moved to Poland , Ohio , where his father lived. Here Kirtland was elected three times to the State Legislature of Ohio ( Ohio General Assembly ). In 1837 he received a professorship in medicine at Ohio Medical College (now the University of Cincinnati ) in Cincinnati , which he held until 1842. From 1843 to 1864 he was a professor at the newly formed Cleveland Medical College (now Case Western Reserve University ) in Cleveland .

In 1855 Kirtland was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1865 to the National Academy of Sciences , and in 1875 to the American Philosophical Society . From 1845 to 1865 he was the founding president of the Cleveland Academy of Sciences , which was renamed the Kirtland Society of Natural History in 1865 and which eventually became part of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History . In 1861 Kirtland received an honorary doctorate from Williams College .

In addition to his medical work, Kirtland made a name for himself as a naturalist. He worked from 1837 under William Williams Mather on the Geological Survey of Ohio , for which he described all the mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and snails of Ohio, including numerous first descriptions, for example the North American jackdickle and the American dogfish (both 1840). Kirtland also did a lot for Ohio beekeeping , horticulture and agriculture . The Michigan warbler ( Kirtland's warbler , Dendroica kirtlandii ) and a water snake ( Kirtland's snake , Clonophis kirtlandii ) are named after him.

Kirtland had been married to Caroline Atwater since 1814. The couple had three children. His wife and a daughter died in 1823, only one daughter reached adulthood. In 1825 he married Hannah F. Toucey, this marriage remained childless. Jared Kirtland died in 1877. His grave is in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.

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Web links

Commons : Jared Potter Kirtland  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter K. (PDF; 670 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jared Kirtland. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Member History. In: search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kirtland's Warbler  (Dendroica kirtlandii)  in the Encyclopedia of Life . Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Kirtland's Snake  (Clonophis kirtlandii)  in the Encyclopedia of Life . Retrieved June 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kirtland, Jared Potter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirtland, Jared; Kirtland, Jared P .; Kirtland, JP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallingford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1877
Place of death Lakewood , Ohio