George McClellan (physician)
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McClellan in 1845
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| Born | December 22, 1796 |
| Died | May 9, 1847 (aged 50) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale College, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
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| Relatives | Samuel McClellan (grandfather) |
George McClellan (December 22, 1796 in – May 9, 1847 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a 19th-century American surgeon. He is best known for founding the Jefferson Medical College and the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, and his pioneering work in surgery, including writing a widely used textbook.
George McClellan was born in , on December 22, 1796 to a family of Scottish ancestry. His great-grandfather fought on the Jacobite side in the Battle of Culloden, the last pitched battle in Britain, before immigrating to Worcester, Massachusetts. George McClellan's grandfather, Samuel McClellan was a Brigadier General in the American Revolutionary War. [Review sources. The battle of Culloden Moor was fought in Scotland in 1746; the man's son, Brigadier General Samuel McClellan, was however born on US soil in 1730, when his father had presumably already immigrated. Something is amiss].
Throughout his life, George McClellan was known for his personality, having a mix of positive and negative traits. He had a good memory for names and faces of virtually everyone he met. One former student recalled a brief meeting with the doctor and then being recognized even one year later, stating, "the moment we entered Doctor McClellan's office, he recognized and named each one of us, although he had seen us only once before, a year back, and only a very short time." However, Darrach wrote, "McClellan had his peculiarities." He often came across as disrespectful and even insubordinate and spoke in a "rapid incoherent manner." It has been noted that he routinely perturbed individuals above him in title. Nonetheless, some people just accepted this as something that came with his "surgical zeal."
McClellan's famous family includes his wife, Elizabeth (Brinton), two sons, John Hill Brinton McClellan, who was a physician, and the other, General George Brinton McClellan, who was a major general during the American Civil War. His grandson, George McClellan (1849–1913) became the Chair of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College and authored the famous medical text, Regional Anatomy.
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