Nice bust view of John M. Woodworth wearing a dark double-breasted frock coat with major or lieutenant colonels shoulder straps.

Image has wonderful clarity and contrast. Paper and mount are good. Mount corners are clipped. Bottom of image has a strong clear inscription “JNO. M. WOODWORTH, ACTG. MED> DEPT. 15 A.C.”

Reverse has photographer’s imprint of A. PATTIANI…CHICAGO, ILL. Reverse also has a cancelled three cent tax stamp which dates the image between 1864-1866.

John Maynard Woodworth was born in Big Flats, New York on August 15, 1837 and graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1862.

He was commissioned an assistant surgeon of the 1^st Illinois Light Artillery on May 15, 1862 and became Medical Director of the Army of the Tennessee under Gen. William T. Sherman and headed the ambulance train on Sherman's "March to the Sea". He was mustered out on July 28, 1865.

A findagrave.com entry gives a concise biography of Dr. Woodworth’s later life:

“In 1871, Dr. Woodward was appointed Supervising Surgeon (a post later designated Surgeon General) of the Marine Hospital Service. Woodworth reorganized the service on a military model, introduced uniforms for its doctors, and broadened its interests and responsibilities to include federal quarantine authority. From these beginnings under Dr. Woodworth, the commissioned officer corps was formally established in 1889 and added responsibilities in the area of public health finally resulted in the service being renamed the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912. Dr. Woodworth is recognized as the first Surgeon General of the United States. He authorized the first "Weekly Abstracts of Consular Sanitary Reports", forerunner of "Public Health Reports", the official journal of the Public Health Service. Woodworth designed the seal of the Marine Hospital Service around an anchor and caduceus. With minor changes, this seal is now used by the Public Health Service.”

Dr. Woodworth died in Washington, D.C. on March 14, 1879 and is buried there in Rock Creek Cemetery.    [ad]

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