Edward Swift Dunster

Birth Date

1834-09-02

Death Date

1888-05-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Massachusetts soldier and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Army. Maine native. Son of Samuel Dunster and Susan Down Dunster. Married to Rebecca Morgan Sprole Dunster on November 4, 1863. Graduated from Harvard College in 1856 (BA) and 1859 (MA). Graduated from New York College of Medicine and Surgery in March 1859. Physician in New York, New York, in 1860. Served in the United States Army as assistant surgeon general from August 5, 1861, to February 1, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Providence County, Providence Ward 1, p. 5A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, New York Ward 18, District 3, p. 692.
"Edward Swift Dunster,"History of the University of Michigan, 249-50, http://umhistory.dc.umich.edu/history/FacultyHistory/D/Dunster,EdwardSwift.html (accessed on July 3, 2020).

Frederick A.P. Barnard, _American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men...: Michigan Volume (Cincinnati: Western Biographical Publishing Co., 1878), 30-31.
Find A Grave, "Dr. Edward Swift Dunster (1834-1888)," Memorial #30522593, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30522593 (accessed July 3, 2020).

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