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Edward Swift Dunster (Massachusetts soldier and assistant surgeon general U.S. Army)

b. 1834-09-02 d. 1888-05-03

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.

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Bibliography

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/Faculty History/D/Dunster,Edward Swift.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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Dunster, Edward Swift. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205516 (November 12, 2026).

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