Brown, Samuel Papers, 1817-1825
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Samuel Brown
Title: Papers, 1817-1825
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 0.66 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss./A/B881
Scope and Content Note
Papers of physician Samuel Brown (1769-1830). His papers contain much information on the medical community in the U.S. during the early 19 th century. Letters from fellow doctors discuss medical news; recent cases treated; medical research; education; outbreak of diseases; and opinions of and gossip about other doctors. In addition there is correspondence from family and friends, primarily from Alabama, that relates not only family news but also information regarding plantations, slaves, cotton, weather, education, Kentucky, Louisville, Lexington, Florida, local and national politics, finances and the economy. A calendar is filed with the collection – click here to view a PDF of the calendar.
Historical Note
Brown was born in Rockbridge, Virginia and educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in 1789. He studied medicine under his brother-in-law Dr. Alexander Humphreys and Dr. Benjamin Rush. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1797 and began teaching at Transylvania University in 1799. In 1806 he moved to New Orleans and married Catherine Percy in 1808. After her death in 1813 he moved to Huntsville, Alabama and devoted himself to his children and farming. He died in 1830.
Folder List
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1817
Folder 2: Correspondence, 1818, January-September
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1818, October-December
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1819, January-April
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1819, July-December
Folder 6: Correspondence, 1820, January-August
Folder 7: Correspondence, 1820, October-December
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1821, January-September
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1821, October-December
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1822, January-September
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1822, October-December
Folder 12: Correspondence, 1823, January-September
Folder 13: Correspondence, 1823, October-December
Folder 14: Correspondence, 1824
Folder 15: Correspondence, 1825
Folder 16: Correspondence, undated
Subject Headings
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Alabama – Economic conditions
Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 – Correspondence
Banks and banking – Kentucky – History
Baptists – Ohio – Cincinnati – History
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Blythe, James, ca. 1765-1842
Briggs, John M., b. 1798
Brown, James, 1766-1835
Brown, James Percy, 1811-1844
Brown, John, 1757-1837
Brown, Preston W., 1775-1826
Brown, Orlando, 1801-1867
Brown, Susan Catherine, b. ca. 1809
Buchanan, Joseph, 1785-1829
Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853 – Correspondence
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853
Cincinnati (Ohio) – Social life and customs
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 – Correspondence
Cotton growing – Alabama – History
Cotton growing – Kentucky – History
Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834
Diseases – Kentucky – History
Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818
Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852 – Correspondence
Dudley, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Winslow), 1785-1870
Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916
Eberle, John, 1787-1838
Fire extinction – Kentucky – Lexington – History
Fishback, James, 1776-1845
Forsyth, John, 1780-1841
Gibbs, George, 1776-1833
Gibson, William, 1788-1868
Godman, John D. (John Davidson), 1794-1830
Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843
Holley, Horace, 1781-1827 – Correspondence
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Kentucky – Politics and government – 1792-1865
Land use – Florida – History
Laroche, R. (Rene), 1795-1872 – Correspondence
McKee, John, 1771-1832
Medical colleges – United States – History
Medical education – United States – History
Medicine – Societies, etc. – History
Michaux, Francois Andre, 1770-1885 – Correspondence
Missouri compromise
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Morgan, Calvin C., ca. 1799-1854
Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Parrish, Joseph, 1779-1840
Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851
Percy, Thomas George, d. 1841
Physicians – United States – Correspondence
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837
Pinckney, Charles, 1757-1824
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Revere, John, 1787-1847 – Correspondence
Richardson, William H. (William Hall), d. 1844
Rogers, Coleman, 1781-1855 – Correspondence
Rush, James, 1786-1869
Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864
Slavery – United States – History
Walker, John Williams, 1783-1823 – Correspondence
Ware, Nathaniel A., ca. 1790-1854
Webster, John White, 1793-1850
Williams, Thomas Hill, 1780-1840
Women – Education – Kentucky – History
Yandell, Lunsford P. (Lunsford Pitts), 1805-1878