Matthew Derbyshire Mann (July 12, 1845 – March 2, 1921) was an American
gynecologist
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and one of the surgeons who operated on President
William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. As a politician he led a realignment that made his Republican Party largely dominant in ...
after
he was shot on the grounds of the
Pan American Exposition on September 6, 1901, in
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from South ...
, by anarchist
Leon F. Czolgosz
Leon Frank Czolgosz ( , ; May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901) was an American laborer and anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York. The president died on September 14 after his wound became ...
.
Life and career
Mann was born in
Utica, New York
Utica () is a Administrative divisions of New York, city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The List of cities in New York, tenth-most-populous city in New York State, its population was 65,283 ...
,
the son of New York State Senator
Charles Addison Mann (1803–1860) and Emma () Mann (1813–1887).
He graduated from
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
in 1867, and from the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) is the graduate medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Founded i ...
in 1871. After two years of study in
Heidelberg
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,
Paris
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,
Vienna
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, and
London
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, he practiced in New York until 1879, then in
Hartford, Connecticut
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, until 1882, and thereafter was professor of gynecology at the
University of Buffalo
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until 1910.
He worked as a gynecologist at the
Buffalo General Hospital
John R. Oishei Children's Hospital (viewed from Ellicott Street in 2017)
Kaleida Health, founded in 1998, is a not-for-profit healthcare network that manages five hospitals in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Prior to the merger of ...
, and in 1894 was president of the American Gynecological Society. He edited an ''American System of Gynecology'' (two volumes, 1887–1888), and wrote ''Immediate Treatment of Rupture of the Perineum'' (1874) and ''Manual of Prescription Writing'' (1878; sixth edition, revised, 1907).
Mann died in Buffalo on March 2, 1921.
See also
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Assassination of William McKinley
William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the ...
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1845 births
1921 deaths
American gynecologists
American science writers
Assassination of William McKinley
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
People from Utica, New York
Physicians from Buffalo, New York
Writers from Buffalo, New York
Yale University alumni