Dr. Jonathan Collins Warren (1778-1856)

He was born at Boston and graduated from Harvard (1797) before spending three years at hospitals in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. In 1806, he was elected Adjutant Professor of Anatomy & Surgery at Harvard, succeeding to the chair in 1815. He was the founder of the Massachusetts General Hospital and its principal surgeon. He was President of the Massachusetts Medical Society (1832-36); President of the Massachusetts Temperance Society; and the first American surgeon to operate on a strangulated hernia using ether. He was married twice. In 1803, he married Susan Powell Mason, daughter of U.S. Senator Jonathan Mason. She died in 1841 and two years later (1843) he married Anna, daughter of Lt.-Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop. All seven of his children were by his first wife, six of whom (listed above) lived to adulthood.