Joseph Henry Wythe

1822 – 1901

Emmet Rixford in *[American Medical Biographies][1]* (1920) wrote: >Joseph Henry Wythe, preacher-physician, was born in Manchester, England, March 19, 1822, the son of Joseph Wythe and Mary Chamberlain. He came to this country in 1835 and was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842. He studied medicine and was graduated in 1850 at the Pennsylvania Medical College and settled in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, where he was surgeon to the Beaver Meadow Collieries. In 1862–3 he was surgeon in the United States Army and organized Camp Parole Hospital at Alexandria, Virginia.