Ellerslie Wallace, M.D. Click on image to enlarge Go to lecture card display   Name: Ellerslie Wallace Death date: Feb 1885 Place of death: Philadelphia, PA Birth date: 1819 Place of birth: Philadelphia, PA Type of practice: Allopath States and years of licenses:PA, 1881 Medical school(s): Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1843, (G) Professorship: Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, obstetrics Journal of the American Medical Association Citation: 4:336 WALLACE, ELLERSLIE, Philadelphia, Pa., was born there June I5th, 1819. He is of English and Scottish ancestry, and claims to be a direct descendant of Robert Bruce. His literary education was obtained at Bristol coll., and in early life he followed the business of surveying. He studied medicine under his brother, Dr. Joshua Wallace, then demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson med. coll., from which institution he himself graduated in 1843. Settling down to practice in Philadelphia, he was appointed demonstratpr of anatomy in his alma mater and held the position until he resigned to accept the chair of obstetrics, and diseases of women and children, then made vacant by the resignation of Dr. C. D. Meigs, and still continues to fill it.   He is a member of the coll. of phys. of Philadelphia; of the Philadelphia со. med. soc., and of several gynzecol. Bocs. A number of articles on medical, surgical, and obstetrical subjects have been furnished by him to the journals of his profession. During the war he was an active member of the Union League of Philadelphia. In 1847 he married Miss Wistar, daughter of Bartholomew Wistar, Esq.