Marine Hospital Service (Portland, ME) correspondence 1865-1877

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Marine Hospital Service (Portland, ME) correspondence 1865-1877

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Official correspondence from the Treasury Department addressed to Dr. Fessenden. Content isentirely administrative regarding personnel, hospital accounts, maintenance, and reports.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Fessenden, C. S. D.

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United States. Marine Hospital Service. Hospital (Portland, Me.)

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Charles S. D. Fessenden, 1828-1896, was surgeon in charge at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Portland, Me. Born in Portland, he graduated from Bowdoin College and Brunswick Medical School. His brother was William Pitt Fessenden, 1806-1869, a senator from Maine and Secretary of the Treasury. Charles joined the Marine Hospital Service in 1861, eventually serving in Maine, New York, Louisiana, and Alabama. From the guide to the Marine Hospital Service (Portland, ME) correspondence, 1865-1877,...

United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

Woodworth, John M. (John Maynard) 1837-1879

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