Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892

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Quaker physician and alienist of Northhampton, Mass.

From the description of Papers, 1806-1897. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 154271532

From the description of Papers, 1806-1897. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35149599

Pliny Earle (1809-1892) was born in Leicester, Mass., the son of Patience Buffum Earle and Pliny Earle (1762-1832), who invented and patented a machine for making wool and cotton cards. The younger Pliny attended Leicester Academy, the Friends' School in Providence, R.I., and earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1837. A physician and psychiatrist, he was a co-founder of the American Medical Association and led his contemporaries in the study of psychiatric institutions and in the treatment of the insane. He served as superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital in Northampton, Mass., from 1864-1885. He was very interested in the genealogy of his family and in 1888 published _The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and His Descendants_ (Worcester: Press of Charles Hamilton).

From the description of Papers, c. 1819-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191259316

Superintendent of Bloomingdale Asylum.

Earle helped introduce humane methods and attitudes into the work of mental asylums.

From the description of Papers, 1828-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122513916

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creatorOf Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. Papers, 1806-1897. Duke University, Medical Center Library & Archives
referencedIn Cartland family papers, 1823-1913. Houghton Library
creatorOf Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. Papers, c. 1819-1892. American Antiquarian Society
referencedIn Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887) Houghton Library
referencedIn Letters to Dorothea Lynde Dix from various correspondents, 1836-1892. Houghton Library
creatorOf Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878. Correspondence. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
creatorOf Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880. Papers of Lydia Maria Francis Child [manuscript], 1844-1877. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Papers, 1828-1880. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
creatorOf Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. Papers, 1806-1897. Duke University, Medical Center Library & Archives
creatorOf Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873. Letter to Pliny Earle. New York, NY. 1840 June 11. University of Iowa Libraries
referencedIn Roeser, Bernard, 1806-1868. Letter, 1838, Nov. 27 : Athens. Duke University, Medical Center Library & Archives
creatorOf Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887,. Letters from various correspondents, 1836-1892. Houghton Library
referencedIn Samuel F.B Morse letters and documents, 1844-1872 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
creatorOf Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Papers. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
referencedIn Earle family. Papers, 1727-1892 [microform]. Gadsden Public Library
referencedIn Cartland family papers, 1823-1913. Houghton Library
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associatedWith Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. person
associatedWith Beck, Theodric Romeyn, 1791-1855. person
associatedWith Bedford, Gunning S., 1806-1870. person
associatedWith Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894. person
correspondedWith Cartland family. family
associatedWith Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880. person
associatedWith Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873. person
associatedWith Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886. person
associatedWith Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, 1822-1912. person
associatedWith Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft), 1822-1907. person
associatedWith Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. person
associatedWith Downing, Charles. person
associatedWith Downing, Charles. person
associatedWith Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869. person
associatedWith Earle family. family
associatedWith Earle family. family
associatedWith Edmonds, John W. (John Worth), 1799-1874. person
associatedWith Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans, 1815-1864. person
associatedWith Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851. person
associatedWith Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909. person
associatedWith Gray, John P. (John Purdue), 1825-1886. person
associatedWith Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1875. person
associatedWith Hastings, Seth, 1761-1831. person
associatedWith Hastings, Seth, 1762-1831. person
associatedWith Hays, I. Minis (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925. person
associatedWith Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878. person
associatedWith Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911. person
associatedWith Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876. person
associatedWith Leicester Academy. corporateBody
associatedWith May, Samuel, 1810-1899. person
associatedWith Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. person
associatedWith Mott, Valentine, 1785-1865. person
associatedWith New York Hospital-Westchester Division. corporateBody
associatedWith Parker, Willard, 1800-1884. person
associatedWith Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851. person
associatedWith Peirce, Henry Bailey. person
associatedWith Phipson, Emma. person
associatedWith Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901. person
associatedWith Roeser, Bernard, 1806-1868. person
associatedWith Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. person
associatedWith Seguin, Edward, 1812-1880. person
associatedWith Shearman, Abraham, 1777-1847. person
associatedWith Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869. person
associatedWith Talcott, Selden Haines, 1842-1902. person
associatedWith Thurnam, John, 1810-1873. person
associatedWith Warner, Oliver, 1818-1885. person
associatedWith Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874. person
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Birth 1809-12-31

Death 1892-05-17

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