John A. Veatch
John Allen Veatch (born March 5, 1808 in Knox County , Kentucky , † April 24, 1870 in Portland , San Patricio County , Texas ) was an American surgeon, officer, surveyor and scientist. He was the first child of Isaac and Lucinda (Ramsey) Veatch.
Career
In 1827 John Allen Veatch began his medical school . He joined the Freemasons in 1829 and moved to Louisiana where he worked as a teacher. In 1834 he moved to Texas on protected land in what is now Hardin , Trinity, and Jefferson Counties . The following year he was elected as a delegate of Bevil Commune in the Consultation , which served as the Provisional Government during the Texan War of Independence between November 1835 and March 1836. Sam Houston proposed to Veatch for the Liberty County Notary Public in 1840before, however that nomination was rejected by the Texas Senate . Veatch was a doctor in the town of Bluff during the 1840s .
During the Mexican-American War he served as First Lieutenant in Mirabeau B. Lamar's Independent Volunteer Company between 1846 and 1847 . Then he was from September 1847 to September 1848 as a captain with the Texas Mounted Volunteers responsible for border defense. He also worked as a surgeon the entire time.
After 1850 he moved to San Antonio , where his property was valued at $ 15,000. During his stay in Texas he studied botany and mineralogy . Veatch eventually moved to California and discovered large deposits of borax in Lake County in 1856 . He edited several scientific publications, explored Carres Island in 1858, and was a curator in conchology at the California Academy of Sciences from 1858 to 1861 . During the American Civil War he practiced as a doctor in Virginia City ( Nevada ) between 1862 and 1863 . He also worked as a geologist in San Francisco until 1869 . During this time he made an unsuccessful attempt in 1868 to obtain a position as a state geologist in Oregon . Veatch then accepted a post as professor of chemistry , toxicology and materia medica at Willamette University Medical School in 1869 .
John A. Veatch and his first wife, Charlotte Sheridan (or Edwards), had three children together; two of them were born in Louisiana and a third in Texas. After Charlotte's death, he married Anne Bradley. The couple had two children together. Veatch left his family in Texas and sought his fortune in California. His wife then divorced him in 1853. He married his third wife, Samanthe Brisbee, in 1865, who died four years later.
literature
- Dr. John Allen Veatch (1808-1870), Nineteenth-Century Nevada Physician (PDF; 123 kB), Volume 18, No. 3, Fall 2007
- They came to East Texas, 500-1850: immigrants and immigration patterns by Joe E. Ericson, Carolyn Reeves Ericson, Heritage Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7884-3327-6 , 95
Web links
- Handbook of Texas Online (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consultation on the page of The Handbook of TexasOnline
- ^ The Political Graveyard
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veatch, John A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veatch, John Allen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon, officer, surveyor, and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Knox County , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1870 |
| Place of death | Portland , San Patricio County , Texas |