Background
March grew up in Sutton, Massachusetts.
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Alden March
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Brown University.
Career
March married Joanna P. Armsbury in 1824. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Brown University on 1820. In 1821, March taught the first anatomy course in the history of New York State.
He later founded the Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery in Albany, New York, and held the first chair in surgery at Albany Medical College.
Among the devices invented by March were novel methods for removing dead bone and renal calculi. He served as President of the American Medical Association and the New York State Medical Society.
The Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College is named after March.
