Biography of George Troupe Maxwell, Jacksonville, Duval Co., FL

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GEORGE TROUPE MAXWELL

     George Troupe Maxwell, of Jacksonville, Florida, was born in Bryan county,
Georgia, August 06, 1827, his father being Colonel John Jackson Maxwell, planter,
who repeatedly represented his county in the State Senate.  His maternal grandfather
was Colonel John Baker, an officer distinguished in the Revolutionary War, and after
whom Baker County, Georgia, was named.  His ancestors, both paternal and maternal,
were intimately associated with the early history, Colonial and State, of Georgia.
His preliminary education was received at Chetham Academy, Savannah, from whence he
proceeded to the University of New York, taking his degree of M. D. in the medical
department of that institution in 1848.  He established himself in practice at
Tallahassee, where he remained until 1857, when he was appointed Surgeon to the
Marine Hospital at Key West....  In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate Army as
a private, serving for four months in the First Florida Regiment...  the battle of
Mission Ridge, when he was captured , sent north and imprisoned on Johnston's Island
until March 1865...  [This is a long biography.]

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND
SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, pp. 318-319.

[Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com]