The Founder
Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck

Born: July 22, 1813, Boston, Mass.
Parents: George Cheyne and Eliza Cheever (Davis) Shattuck
Education: Round Hill School, Northhampton, Mass., 1827
Harvard College, A.B., 1831
Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1835
European studies under the famous pathologist
P.C. H. Louis, Paris, France, 1835-1840
Married: Anne Henrietta Brune, April 9, 1840
Career: 1840 – Began practice of medicine in Boston
with his father, Dr. George C. Shattuck, Sr.
1840s – Founder (with Oliver Wendell Holmes
and others) of the Boston Society for
Medical Observation
1849-1855 – Visiting Physician, Mass. General Hospital
1855 – Founder, St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H.
First students arrived April 3, 1856
1855-64 – Professor of Clinical Medicine at
Harvard Medical School
1864 – Dean, Harvard Medical School
Died: March 22, 1893

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