Nathaniel Chapman (1780–1853)
Chapman treated Bushrod Washington when the latter was riding circuit as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Nathaniel Chapman was born on 28 May 1780 in Fairfax County, Virginia. After studying medicine under Benjamin Rush, he earned a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, trained in London and Edinburgh, and opened a private practice in Philadelphia. For four decades (1810–1850) Chapman taught medicine at his alma mater, holding the chair of theory and practice of medicine for most of that time.
"Nathaniel Chapman." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310016194/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=e958de33. Accessed 1 Sept. 2023.
James Gregory Mumford, "Chapman, Nathaniel," in Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage, eds., American Medical Biographies (Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1920), 208–09.
Finding Aid for the Collection of Notes on Nathaniel Chapman Lectures, UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library (Online Archive of California).
"To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Chapman, 6 June 1804," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0438. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 541–542.]
"Nathaniel Chapman to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1809," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0522. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 663.]
Benjamin Trott, Mrs. Nathaniel Chapman (Rebekah Biddle), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Dr. Nathaniel Chapman in Chapman Family Tree (Ancestry.com).
Nathaniel Chapman at Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
Nathaniel Chapman at FamilySearch.