Major Samuel Hollingsworth Stout (March 3, 1822 – September 18, 1903) was an American farmer, slaveholder, teacher and surgeon. In the

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, he was the owner of a farm with slaves in

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. During the

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, he was a surgeon to the

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and later in charge of sixty hospitals for the

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in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. He later taught at the Atlanta Medical College (now known as the

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), and he practiced medicine in Texas.

Early life

Samuel Hollingsworth Stout was born on March 3, 1822, in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, Samuel Van Dyke Stout, was the owner of a carriage factory and the mayor of Nashville. He had three brothers and one sister. He was raised as a Presbyterian. Stout was educated at the Classical and Mathematical Seminary in Nashville. He graduated from the

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in 1839 with an

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, and he earned an

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from the University of Pennsylvania's medical school in 1848.

Career

Stout became a surgeon for the

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but resigned as the American-Mexican War was coming to an end. Instead, he practiced medicine in

, where he owned a farm with slaves. He also became an early member of the Tennessee Historical Society. At the outset of the

, on May 17, 1861, Stout became a major of cavalry in the

. He was a surgeon to the Third Tennessee Infantry from May to November 1861, and to Gordon Hospital in Nashville from November 1861 to February 1862. He subsequently moved to

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, where he was in charge of hospitals for the

. By the summer of 1864, his responsibilities had expanded to sixty Confederate hospitals in the Southern states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. By the end of the war, he had lost his Giles County farm. Stout was a professor of surgery at the Atlanta Medical College, later known as the

, from 1866 to 1867. He practised medicine in Georgia until 1882, when he moved to

Cisco, Texas Cisco is a city in Eastland County, Texas. The population was 3,899 at the time of the 2010 census. History Cisco, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and Interstate 20 in northwestern Eastland County, traces its history back to 1878 or 18 ...

; he taught and practiced medicine in

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Personal life and death

Stout married Martha Moore Abernathy in 1848. They had seven children. He died on September 18, 1903, in Clarendon, Texas.

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External links

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Samuel Hollingsworth Stout papers
at the

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Samuel Hollingsworth Stout Papers, 1819-1963
Tennessee Historical Society Collection, Tennessee State Library and Archives
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
Samuel Hollingsworth Stout papers, 1800-1899
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Early life

Career

Personal life and death

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