Albert Freeman Africanus King
| Albert Freeman Africanus King | |
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Portrait of Dr Albert Freeman Africanus King
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| Born |
18 January 1841 Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, England |
| Died | 13 December 1914 (aged 73) Washington, D.C., USA |
| Resting place |
Rock Creek Cemetery 38°34′N 77°00′E / 38.56°N 77.0°ECoordinates: 38°34′N 77°00′E / 38.56°N 77.0°E |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields |
Obstetrics Philosophy of medicine |
| Institutions |
Lincoln Hospital National Medical College of Columbian University University of Vermont College of Medicine Providence Hospital (Washington, D.C.) Georgetown University |
| Alma mater | National Medical College of Columbian University (1st MD) University of Pennsylvania (2nd MD) George Washington University |
| Thesis | Basis of an improved medical philosophy (1865) |
| Known for | Service in assassination of Abraham Lincoln Mosquito-malaria theory |
| Spouse | Ellen Amory Dexter |
Albert Freeman Africanus King (18 January 1841 – 13 December 1914) an English-born American physician who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865. He was a bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination. He was one of a few physicians who served in both the Confederate States Army and the United States Army during the American Civil War. In addition, King was one of the earliest to suggest the connection between mosquitos and malaria.
On January 18, 1841, King was born in Ambrosden, a village near Bicester in the Cherwell District of north-eastern Oxfordshire in England. He was the youngest of three children of Edward King and Louisa Freeman. His sister was Stella Louisa Elizabeth King (born 1838) and brother was Claudius Edward Richard King (born 1839). His father was a doctor interested in the colonization of Africa. He was named Africanus "because of his father's admiration" for that continent. He attended Maley's School and the Bicester Diocesan School.
His family left Liverpool on Thursday 26 August 1854 to emigrate to the United States. They arrived in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 7 September 1854 (but some records indicate 1851) and first settled in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1855, they moved to Bushy Bridges, Prince William County.
King earned his (MD) degree from National Medical College of Columbian University (now George Washington University Medical School) in 1861 at age twenty. In November he became an Acting Assistant Surgeon to Major J. W. L. Daniel of 15th AL Infantry, Confederate States Army, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1864 he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army, and worked at the Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D.C. In 1865, he became lecturer on toxicology at the National Medical College of Columbian University, and also obtained his second MD degree from University of Pennsylvania.
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