Mussey, Reuben Dimond, 1780-1866

Dates

• Existence: 1780 - 1866

Biography

Reuben Dimond Mussey was born in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in 1780. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1803, after which he studied medicine under Nathan Smith. In 1809, he Mussey graduated to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and became a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Middlebury College. Mussey was an advocate of the temperance movement and was part of the temperance society at Dartmouth College which had been founded in 1828. In 1838 he went to Cincinnati where he became a professor at the Medical College of Ohio. In 1850 he served as president of the American Medical Association. He founded the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati in 1852. Mussey died in 1866.