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Dr James Anderson Agnew

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Dr James Anderson Agnew

Birth
Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
Death
1 Oct 1879 (aged 51)
Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA
Burial
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Father: Dr. James A. Agnew
Mother: Martha Ann Miller
1846-1847 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (studied chemistry, medicine, anatomy, and surgery)
1847-1848 - Attended, The University of the City of New York Medical Department, New York, New York
1848 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York Medical Department, New York, NY (from: Burkeville, Prince Edward Co., VA)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Nottoway Co., VA (living in the home of Mary Ellington [family 216]; erroneously indexed as James A. Hollowell in the 1850 U.S. Census)
11/15/1854 - Married Martha Chaffin "Pattie" Scott, Amelia Co., VA [she died in 1872]
1860 - Practiced medicine, Magisterial District 1, Nottoway Co., VA (living with wife, Pattie C. and 2 children - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as J. A. Agnew)
07/10/1862 - Signed contract as a Confederate Army Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician) with the Confederate Surgeon General at $80/mo.
07/16/1862 - Assigned as an Acting Asst. Surgeon, Confederate Army, Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond, VA
09/30/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/01/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/05/1862 - Contract, as Acting Asst. Surgeon, cancelled
09/16/1864 - As a Confederate physician, signed a Confederate Army receipt for corn, while in Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA [rank, if any, unknown]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Lee Township, Prince Edward Co., VA (living with wife, Martha, and 6 children)
12/06/1872 - Wife, Martha, died
1874 - Practiced medicine, Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA
1877 - Married, Elizabeth Jane McLean (or Maclean) [1836-1918]
10/01/1879 - (or 10/02/1879 or 09/00/1879) - Died of a lung disease Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA (place where disease was contracted: Prince Edward Co., VA;

Donna Wilmarth, Jean L. Cooper and Dean Featherstone provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/02/2015. Unpublished database.
Father: Dr. James A. Agnew
Mother: Martha Ann Miller
1846-1847 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (studied chemistry, medicine, anatomy, and surgery)
1847-1848 - Attended, The University of the City of New York Medical Department, New York, New York
1848 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York Medical Department, New York, NY (from: Burkeville, Prince Edward Co., VA)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Nottoway Co., VA (living in the home of Mary Ellington [family 216]; erroneously indexed as James A. Hollowell in the 1850 U.S. Census)
11/15/1854 - Married Martha Chaffin "Pattie" Scott, Amelia Co., VA [she died in 1872]
1860 - Practiced medicine, Magisterial District 1, Nottoway Co., VA (living with wife, Pattie C. and 2 children - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as J. A. Agnew)
07/10/1862 - Signed contract as a Confederate Army Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician) with the Confederate Surgeon General at $80/mo.
07/16/1862 - Assigned as an Acting Asst. Surgeon, Confederate Army, Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond, VA
09/30/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/01/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/05/1862 - Contract, as Acting Asst. Surgeon, cancelled
09/16/1864 - As a Confederate physician, signed a Confederate Army receipt for corn, while in Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA [rank, if any, unknown]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Lee Township, Prince Edward Co., VA (living with wife, Martha, and 6 children)
12/06/1872 - Wife, Martha, died
1874 - Practiced medicine, Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA
1877 - Married, Elizabeth Jane McLean (or Maclean) [1836-1918]
10/01/1879 - (or 10/02/1879 or 09/00/1879) - Died of a lung disease Burkeville, Nottoway Co., VA (place where disease was contracted: Prince Edward Co., VA;

Donna Wilmarth, Jean L. Cooper and Dean Featherstone provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/02/2015. Unpublished database.


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