Background
CHISOLM, John Julian was born on April 16, 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of the surgeon Dr. Robert Trail and Harriet Emily Chisolm.
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John Julian CHISOLM
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Education
Private school, medical school.
Career
After graduating from the South Carolina Medical College in 1850, he traveled to Europe, where he studied medicine in London and Paris. Chisolm was married twice, to Mary Edings on February 3, 1852, and to Elizabeth Steel on January 14, 1894. He returned to Charleston in 1852 and soon established a lucrative medical practice.
In 1858, he was named a professor of surgery at the South Carolina Medical College. When the Civil War began, he received a commission as a medical officer. During the war, he attended the wounded at Fort Sumter, directed a plant for the manufacture of medicines at Charleston, and was chief surgeon of the military hospital at Richmond.
He also wrote the Manual of Military Surgery (1861) which served as a textbook for doctors in the field. After the war, he returned to teach at the medical school and was dean of the South Carolina Medical College until 1869. He then left Charleston for Baltimore, where he taught surgery at the University of Maryland Medical School.
He founded Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in Baltimore in 1877. In 1895, he was dean of the University of Maryland Medical School. Chisolm continued to teach until his death on November 2, 1903, in Petersburg, Virginia.
Cunningham, Doctors in Gray, Kelly and Burrage (eds.), American Medical Biographies.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
