Smith, Edwin Everett, 1844-1919
Dates
- Existence: 1844 - 1919
Biography
Edwin Everett Smith was born on August 28, 1844, in Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and was a non-graduate of the Class of 1868. He continued his medical education at Ann Arbor, Michigan and Long Island College Hospital, graduating from there in 1871. After graduation, Smith was appointed resident surgeon at the hospital. In 1872, he went into private practice for a year and in 1873, joined Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island as a resident surgeon. Smith began his career in mental illnesses in 1874, when he began work at the New York State Lunatic Asylum and continued it at the State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown, New Jersey in 1876. In 1886, Smith established an institution at Norwalk, Connecticut, called "Kensett" for the treatment of patience with nervous disorders, mental alienation, alcoholic and narcotic addictions. Smith died in 1917.
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Notes on the history of Hanover, NH
Edwin Everett Smith (1844-1919), physician. Non-graduate Dartmouth College, Class of 1868. The collection contains reminiscences by Edwin E. Smith on life in Hanover, NH, in the first half of the 19th century.