Richard McSherry (1863 – 1885)     Received his MD in 1841 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the medical corps of the U.S.Army on Aug. 21st 1838 and served under General Taylor in the Second Seminole War, resigning his commission on April 30th 1840.   McSherry was an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy from 1843 to 1856 and cruised around the world on the Frigate Constitution.  He was professor of materia medica at the University of Maryland from 1862-65, and of the principles and practice of medicine from 1865-85.   McSherry served as the Fifth Chairman of the Department of Medicine from 1863 to 1865.  He was also one of the founders and first president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine, and president of the Maryland state board of health.