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Dr Samuel Maverick Van Wyck

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Dr Samuel Maverick Van Wyck

Birth
New York, USA
Death
30 Nov 1861 (aged 26)
Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Father: Samuel Van Wyck
1850 - Student, Anderson Co, SC
- Attended Amherst & Yale Universities
06/06/1855 - Married, Margaret Caroline Broyles
1860 - M.D. degree, University of the City of New York, Medical Department, New York, NY
1860 - Practiced medicine, Huntsville, Madison Co, AL
1861 - Surgeon, Confederate Army
10/28/1861 - Surgeon, Gen. Bedford Forest's Cavalry Battalion
11/30/1861 - Dr. VanWyck was murdered by a local citizen in Marion, Crittenden Co, KY, while riding through town on his horse next to Lt. Col. [later, Gen.] Nathan Bedford Forrest

Note: The 1850 U.S. Census for Anderson Co, SC, gives his place of birth as New York. The 1860 Census for Madison Co, AL, gives his place of birth as South Carolina.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
05/21/2013. Unpublished database.
Born on Tuesday, Died on Saturday
Aged 26 years, 7 months, 16 days.

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[Thanks to Aislin for birth date, birth state and death location sent via SAC on 04 Mar 2022.]
Father: Samuel Van Wyck
1850 - Student, Anderson Co, SC
- Attended Amherst & Yale Universities
06/06/1855 - Married, Margaret Caroline Broyles
1860 - M.D. degree, University of the City of New York, Medical Department, New York, NY
1860 - Practiced medicine, Huntsville, Madison Co, AL
1861 - Surgeon, Confederate Army
10/28/1861 - Surgeon, Gen. Bedford Forest's Cavalry Battalion
11/30/1861 - Dr. VanWyck was murdered by a local citizen in Marion, Crittenden Co, KY, while riding through town on his horse next to Lt. Col. [later, Gen.] Nathan Bedford Forrest

Note: The 1850 U.S. Census for Anderson Co, SC, gives his place of birth as New York. The 1860 Census for Madison Co, AL, gives his place of birth as South Carolina.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
05/21/2013. Unpublished database.
Born on Tuesday, Died on Saturday
Aged 26 years, 7 months, 16 days.

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[Thanks to Aislin for birth date, birth state and death location sent via SAC on 04 Mar 2022.]

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