Samuel Kennedy Jennings, M.D.
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Jennings, Samuel Kennedy. 1817. Born in Essex County, N. J., June 6, 1771. Educated at Rutgers College, N. J.; medical student of his father (Dr. Jacob Jennings) ; ordained minister in the M. E. Church; removed to Baltimore in 1817; President, Asbury College, Baltimore, 1817-18; M.D. (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1818.
President, Medical Society of Baltimore, 1823-24; a Founder of Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1827; Professor of Materia Medica, Washington Medical College, 1827-39; Professor of Obstetrics, Washington Medical College, 1839-42; Professor of Anatomy, Maryland Academy of Fine Arts, 1838-45; at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1845-53; author of "A Plain, Elementary Exptanation of the Natural Cure of Disease," etc., 8vo, Richmond, Va., 1814; "Letters on the Patent Warm and Hot Bath," etc., 8vo, Norfolk, 1816; "The Married Lady's Companion," 12mo, Richmond; "A Compendium of Medical Science, or Fifty years Experience in the Art of Healing, etc. (with portrait), Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1847. Died at Baltimore, October 19, 1854.
