Horace Henry Hayden
D.D.S. (October 13, 1769 – January 25, 1844) was the first licensed American dentist and dentistry school founder.
Education
Hayden was born in
Windsor, Connecticut
Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population of Windsor was 29,492 at the 2020 census.
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. After working as a cabin boy, architect and schoolteacher, Hayden consulted with
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,
George Washington
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's personal dentist, in 1795 in New York City. Thereafter, he began the study of dentistry under Greenwood's tutelage. In 1800, Dr. Hayden began a dental practice in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hayden was issued a license by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in 1810, the first for the practice of dentistry in the United States of America. During the War of 1812, he served as a private in the 39th Regiment, Maryland Militia, and later as an assistant surgeon.
Between 1819 and 1825, he delivered a series of lectures on dentistry to medical students at the University of Maryland, the first in the new world. Dr. Hayden was one of the founders of the Maryland Academy of Sciences and served as its president in 1825. In 1820, as a pioneer geologist and botanist, he published the first general work on geology to be printed in the United States. He discovered a new mineral, named Hadenite in his honor.
Hayden was the cofounder, with Chapin Harris, of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the world's first dental school, chartered in 1840. Hayden was the school's first president.
Achievements
Hayden is considered the father of the profession of dentistry in the United States of America, architect of the American system of dental education and organizer of American professional dentistry. He has been inducted in the hall of fame of the Pierre Fauchard Academy.
Family
His great-granddaughters were periodontic dentist
Gillette Hayden
Gillette Hayden (1880-1929) was a pioneering dentist and periodontist in the early 20th century.Gillette Hayden, Nationally Acclaimed Woman Dentist, Dies, The Columbus Dispatch, March 27, 1929 page 1 She was a founder of the American Academy of ...
and architect
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) is known as the first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio, entering Ohio State University in 1901. She was also the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930. ...
.
[Ohio State University, College of Dentistry, History of Periodontology at Ohio Stat]
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References
External links
Pierre Fauchard Academy
PFA International Hall of Fame of Dentistry
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American dentists
American dentistry academics
1769 births
1844 deaths