Camden County Georgia Bio Alexander J. Semmes, M.D. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Winge Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/camden.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ALEXANDER J. SEMMES Alexander J. Semmes, of Savannah, Georgia, of Anglo-Norman-Celtic lineage, was born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, December 17, 1828. He is the son of Raphael Semmes, Esq., of Nanjemoy, and Matilda Neale Jenkins, of Cobneck, on the Potomac, in Charles county, Maryland; his paternal and maternal grandfathers were officers of the Maryland line in the Revolutionary Army, direct descendants of the English Catholic gentry, who, flying from persecution in England, came to Maryland between 1636 and 1650; some of whom settled in the adjoining counties of Virginia. Dr. Semmes was a cousin of Raphael Semmes, commander of the Alabama in the Confederate Navy. He was educated at Georgetown College, District of Columbia, attended three courses of lectures at the latter institution, graduating from it in 1851, and subsequently attending clinical lectures in the medical school and hospitals of London and Paris... He was appointed Surgeon of the Eighth Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, June 19, 1861... He was married October 04, 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, to Sarah Lowndes Berrien, daughter of the late John Macpherson Berrien, attorney-general of the United States in the cabinet of President Jackson, and for many years United States Senator from Georgia. Ref: Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p.674. [Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge, barbarawinge@yahoo.com] ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============