Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 'father of ovariotomy' : his life and his work / by August Schachner.
- August Schachner
- Date:
- [1913]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 'father of ovariotomy' : his life and his work / by August Schachner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[154] In Pennsylvania his son John, who was the grandfather of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, married the thrice-wedded Magdalena Wood, and it was here that Samuel, the father of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, was born, on October 29, 1735. In 1737 Ephraim McDowell, his son John, his son-in-law, John Greenlee, with his wife Mary McDowell Greenlee, moved by way of the lower Shenandoah Valley to what is now Rockbridge County, Virginia, near the present town of Lexington. They were the first three settlers in that region. The great-grandfather of Dr. Ephraim McDowell died at the age of about 100. He lies buried in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Capt. John McDowell, the father of Samuel McDowell, and the grandfather of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, fell in a battle with the Indians on Christmas day, 1743. He left three children, Samuel, James and Sarah. Samuel, the oldest, born in Penn- sylvania, October 29, 1735, was the father of Dr. Ephraim McDowell. Two years later John McDowell moved with his family to Virginia. Samuel, as he grew up, received a good education for those times, one of his instructors being his relative, the distinguished Dr. Archibald Alexander. On the 17th day of January, 1754, in Rockbridge County, at the age of 18, he was married to Miss Mary McClung, daughter of John McClung and Elizabeth Alexander. Miss McClung, of Scotch parentage, was born in Ireland on October 28, 1735. Samuel McDowell and his wife Mary had 11 children born to them. When twenty years old he fought in the French and Indian War. He served under General Washington, and was present at the battle of Braddock’s defeat. In 1774 he served as captain in Dunmore’s War, and in the battle of Point Pleasant was an aide-de-camp to General Isaac Shelby, who afterwards became the first governor of Kentucky, and whose daughter later be- came the wife of Dr. Ephraim McDowell. Samuel was a colonel in the war of the Revolution, and with his regiment served under General Green at the battle of Guilford’s Court House, and throughout Green’s campaign against Cornwallis. Preceding the Revolution, Samuel McDowell and Thomas Lewis represented Augusta County in the Convention of 1775 at Richmond, and protested against government by any](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22440951_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
