Alexander Jenkins Semmes

Background

Semmes, Alexander Jenkins was born on December 17, 1828 in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Son of Raphael and Matilda (Jenkins) Semmes.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Georgetown College, 1850. Doctor of Medicine Medical Department, Columbian College, District of Columbia, 1851. Attended Pio Nono College, near Macon, Georgia, also Benedictine monastery of Saint Vincent, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Career

Resident physician Charity Hospital, New Orleans. Surgeon 8th Louisiana Infantry, during Civil War. Commissioned surgeon Confederate Army.

Surgeon Louisiana Brigade in General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson’s corps Army of Northern Virginia.

Medical inspector Department Northern Virginia, inspector hospitals. Member examination boards

Louisiana, Jackson, Stuart, Winder hospitals (all Richmond, Virginia). Professor physiology Savannah (Georgia) Medical College, 1870-1876.

Ordained priest Roman Catholic Church, Macon, 1878.

President, lecturer English and American literature and history Pio Nono College, 1886-1891. Chaplain of school and asylum of Sisters of Saint Joseph, Sharon, Georgia, 1891-1895, Author: Report on the Medicolegal Duties of Coroners, 1857. Contributor articles to publications including Poisoning by Strychnia—The Gardiner Case, published in Stethoscope, 1855.

Reports of Cases of Gunshot Wounds, published in London Lancet, 1864.

Achievements

• Alexander Jenkins Semmes has been listed as a noteworthy physician, clergyman, college president by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member examination boards Louisiana, Jackson, Stuart, Winder hospitals (all Richmond, Virginia).

Connections

Married Sarah Berrien, October 4, 1864.

Father:

Raphael Semmes

Mother:

Matilda (Jenkins) Semmes

Spouse:

Sarah Berrien