Fisher, Dr Charles Glover

Charles Glover Fisher | was born in Vermont, in 1800, and came to Covington in 1824, and was a physician by profession, and one of much prominence; was widely known, and formed a partnership with Drs. Green and Hall, the firm being known as Fisher, Green and Hall. He died in 1879. Received his Medical Degree from Transylvania University in 1825. Dr Fisher married Elizabeth Virginia Dunham, sister to Robert Holmes Dunham that was involved in the Black Bean Incident.

[from Find A Grave]

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Transylvania University

“During its first two decades of existence, the medical department was little known, but between 1819 and 1859 it achieved eminence nationwide. During those years virtually every state in the expanding nation sent students to Transylvania, some 4,300 in all, of whom 1,800 received M.D. degrees. More than 40 percent of the students were Kentuckians, and over 80 percent came from the slaveholding South and trans-Mississippi West.

Transylvania’s medical department had an outstanding faculty, library, scientific apparatus, and natural history collection. In 1821 and again in 1839, faculty members traveled to the Continent and England to purchase books and medical and scientific displays and apparatus for the medical department. On his 1839 purchasing trip to Paris and London, Robert Peter, professor of chemistry, confidently wrote to his wife in Lexington that Transylvania would now be the “best equipped to teach modern medicine.” Without effective state or national regulation, however, medical schools as local enterprises proliferated. In 1820 there were ten schools of medicine in the nation. By 1859 there were nineteen in the South alone, three of them in Kentucky. In 1837, after nearly twenty years at Transylvania, Caldwell persuaded half of the medical faculty to move west and create the Louisville Medical Institute. Transylvania granted its last medical degree in 1859.”

[Source: Kentucky Encyclopedia]

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