Snowden,
Amputation Set, c.1859-60
Owned by Dr.
Stephen Curtis Priest, M.D., Steubenville, Ohio
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Name:
Stephen Curtis Priest
Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
Death date: May 31, 1920
Place of death: Newark, OH
Birth date: Dec 26, 1847
Place of birth: Steubenville, OH
Type of practice: Eclectic
Practice specialities: GS General Surgery
States and years of licenses: WV, 1883, OH, 1896
Places and dates of practices: Newark, OH, 1877
Medical school(s): Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1869, (G), OH-08 Cincinnati, College of
Medicine and Surgery, 1877, (G)
Other education: Common school, Bethany Coll., WV
Journal of the American Medical Association Citation:
74:1789
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This amputation set has features
found in the Weigand-Snowden period (bone forceps), a marked
tourniquet for 1860 and clearly the type tourniquet Snowden and Bro.
used during the Civil War. The amputation knives are typical to
the
1850's when blades were long, big, and handles were much larger and 'beefy'. The wood case
has swinging latches as you would expect during the 1850's. So,
there are some incongruities in the dating of the set, but my guess
would be this set, which belonged to a post-Civil War medical school
graduate was a gift and never saw use. The as-new condition is
testimony to it never having been used and was maintained as a family
heirloom. The set was obtained from a physician family member of
the original owner, so the set has never been out of the hands of the
original family.
The dates when Snowden was in
business alone, was for only a two year period, 1855-1857. Most
likely the set was made during that period, with the 1860 tourniquet
added later when the set was sold to Dr. Priest.
Thomas Snowden; Conrad Wiegand; Wiegand & Snowden; Thomas Snowden;
George P. Snowden; Wiegand & Co.; S. Lloyd Wiegand; Snowden & Bro.;
George Snowden & Bro.; William Snowden; William Snowden Co.,
1816-1900 Thomas Snowden carpenter
1816-1821: 96 N. lIth
1823: 209 Callowhill surgeons'
instrument maker
Conrad Wiegand smith 1816: 340 Sassafras 1823: 338 Sassafras
Wiegand & Snowden John Wiegand and Thomas Snowden; partnership
dissolved 21 May 1855; firm continued by Thomas Snowden)
surgeons' instrument makers "est. 1821"
1824-25: 49 N. 7th 1828-55: 15 N. 5th
Thomas Snowden surgical instrument maker
1855-57: 15 N. 5th (failed and sold at sheriff's sale, December,
1857)
George P. Snowden druggist 1855-58: 4th and Noble
Wiegand & Co. 1856: 286 Race
Thomas Snowden surgical instrument
maker
1855-57: 15 N. 5th (failed and sold at
sheriff's sale, December, 1857)
George P. Snowden druggist 1855-58: 4th and Noble
Snowden & Bro. (George P. [1832-?] and Henry C. [1838-?] Snowden become
partners I July 1858; William Snowden [1840
?] becomes partner I January 1866; Henry C. retires in May,
1872 and sells interest to George) surgical instrument makers
1858-64: 15 N. 5th
1864-72: 23 S. 8th
'1860' embossed in the casting of the
spiked buckle
