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William T. Taliaferro (Cincinnati, Ohio, physician)

b. 1795 d. 1871-03-22

Cincinnati, Ohio, physician. Native of Newington, Virginia, in 1795. Veteran of the War of 1812. Studied medicine with Dr. Keith in Augusta, Kentucky. Educated at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1818. Practiced medicine as an ophthalmologist in Maysville, Kentucky. Relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1841. Founded a hospital with Drs. Vattier, Strader, and T. N. Marshall, in Cincinnati in 1841.

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Bibliography

Howard A. Kelly, A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography, Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910 vol. 1 (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders company, 1912), 1122; John M. Trowbridge, “’To Meet the Men at Any Element:’ The Kentucky Militia in the Battle of Lake Erie,” Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society 42, no. 1 (2006): 4; Edwin Porter Thompson, A Young People’s History of Kentucky for Schools and General Reading (St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Publishing Company, 1897), 197.

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Taliaferro, William T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197943 (November 12, 2026).

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