Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed memorial marker
Item
Title
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed memorial marker
Creator
unknown
Contributor
Yale School of Medicine and Slavery Project
Description
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed memorial marker, describing Creed as "Physician. Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed. Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School. First African American Graduate of Yale. First African American to earn an MD from an Ivy League Medical School. 1st Lieutenant and Surgeon of the 31st Regiment U. S. Colored Troops 1864. One of nine African American physicians to serve in the Union Army. Physician at the Knight U.S. Army General Hospital, New Haven. Member of the Connecticut Medical Society and the Colored Freedmen's Aid Society. Expert consultant on President James A. Garfield's assassination." In the background is the grave marker of Jown W. Creed, Cortlandt's father.
Format
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Identifier
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Rights
Public domain under CC0 license
Source
Grove Street Cemetery, 227 Grove St, New Haven, CT
