Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell was born on July 4, 1805 near Hartsville, Sumner County, Tennessee. His father, Dr. Wilson Yandell, a native of North Carolina, was a physician of high standing. His mother was Elizabeth Pitts, a Virginian by nativity. He acquired the rudiments of an education in his native county. In 1818, he was a student in the Bradley Academy in Rutherford County, Tennessee and there, studied Greek and Latin and the physicial sciences. In 1822, he began the study of medicine with his father, Doctor Wilson Yandell, previously mentioned. In the following winter, he attended a course of medical lectures at Transylvania University. While atending the lectures in the Transylvania Medical College he became favorably known as a young man of industry, good attainments, and ability, and of popular manners. He received his medical degree from this school.
Lunsford Pitts Yandell was married, in 1825, to Susan Juliet Wendel, daughter of David Wendel and Sarah "Sally Hale (Nielson) Yandell, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Throughout his career, as outlined below, eight children were blessed to their household, only three living to adulthood: David W., Lunsford P.Jr, and William Martin Yandell, all physicians. Five others d. as young children: Wilson P.(1830-1836); Margaret,1834-?); Elizabeth P,Oct 1833-Dec 1833); John B 1840-1843; Sarah Nielson, Apr1 846-?).
On March 16, 1831, Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell,Sr., M.D. was called to the Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of Transylvania University. He removed to Louisville in 1837, to join in the establishment of the rival school, the Louisville Medical Institute. Dr. Yandell taught in the combined chairs of Chemistry and Materia Medica. In 1849, Dr. Yandell was placed in the chair of Physiology, for which subject he had a decided taste, and occupied this chair with great credit until he resigned in 1859, to accept a chair in the Medical School of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Civil War he dedicated himself to hospital service. In 1862, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Memphis, and in 1864, was ordained pastor of the Dancyville Presbyterian church. He resigned his pastorship in 1867, and returned to Louisville to resume the practice of medicine.
While resident in Lexington for some years, he was sole editor of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, to which he contributed several able papers. In Louisville he was editor for some time of the Western Journal of Medicine and surgery, in both cases filing the editorial chair with characteristic activity and ability. He was always a contributor to the medical literature of his day in numerous papers, especially in biographical sketches and obituary memoris of medical men of Kentucky and Tennessee.
His social qualities made him always welcome and prominent in all public assemblies of his medical brethen. In 1872, he was elected President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville, and at the time of his death he was President of the Medical Socity of Kentucky.
Dr. Lunsford Pitts Yandell died on February 4, 1878 at the age of 73.
Sources:
1. The history of the medical department of Transylvania University by Doctor Robert Peter (1905); Louisville: John P. Morton & Company; ancestry.com.
2. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century 1878; ancestry.com
3. Ante-bellum Kentucky; ancestry.com.
Lunsford Pitts Yandell was married, in 1825, to Susan Juliet Wendel, daughter of David Wendel and Sarah "Sally Hale (Nielson) Yandell, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Throughout his career, as outlined below, eight children were blessed to their household, only three living to adulthood: David W., Lunsford P.Jr, and William Martin Yandell, all physicians. Five others d. as young children: Wilson P.(1830-1836); Margaret,1834-?); Elizabeth P,Oct 1833-Dec 1833); John B 1840-1843; Sarah Nielson, Apr1 846-?).
On March 16, 1831, Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell,Sr., M.D. was called to the Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of Transylvania University. He removed to Louisville in 1837, to join in the establishment of the rival school, the Louisville Medical Institute. Dr. Yandell taught in the combined chairs of Chemistry and Materia Medica. In 1849, Dr. Yandell was placed in the chair of Physiology, for which subject he had a decided taste, and occupied this chair with great credit until he resigned in 1859, to accept a chair in the Medical School of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Civil War he dedicated himself to hospital service. In 1862, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Memphis, and in 1864, was ordained pastor of the Dancyville Presbyterian church. He resigned his pastorship in 1867, and returned to Louisville to resume the practice of medicine.
While resident in Lexington for some years, he was sole editor of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, to which he contributed several able papers. In Louisville he was editor for some time of the Western Journal of Medicine and surgery, in both cases filing the editorial chair with characteristic activity and ability. He was always a contributor to the medical literature of his day in numerous papers, especially in biographical sketches and obituary memoris of medical men of Kentucky and Tennessee.
His social qualities made him always welcome and prominent in all public assemblies of his medical brethen. In 1872, he was elected President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville, and at the time of his death he was President of the Medical Socity of Kentucky.
Dr. Lunsford Pitts Yandell died on February 4, 1878 at the age of 73.
Sources:
1. The history of the medical department of Transylvania University by Doctor Robert Peter (1905); Louisville: John P. Morton & Company; ancestry.com.
2. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century 1878; ancestry.com
3. Ante-bellum Kentucky; ancestry.com.
Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell was born on July 4, 1805 near Hartsville, Sumner County, Tennessee. His father, Dr. Wilson Yandell, a native of North Carolina, was a physician of high standing. His mother was Elizabeth Pitts, a Virginian by nativity. He acquired the rudiments of an education in his native county. In 1818, he was a student in the Bradley Academy in Rutherford County, Tennessee and there, studied Greek and Latin and the physicial sciences. In 1822, he began the study of medicine with his father, Doctor Wilson Yandell, previously mentioned. In the following winter, he attended a course of medical lectures at Transylvania University. While atending the lectures in the Transylvania Medical College he became favorably known as a young man of industry, good attainments, and ability, and of popular manners. He received his medical degree from this school.
Lunsford Pitts Yandell was married, in 1825, to Susan Juliet Wendel, daughter of David Wendel and Sarah "Sally Hale (Nielson) Yandell, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Throughout his career, as outlined below, eight children were blessed to their household, only three living to adulthood: David W., Lunsford P.Jr, and William Martin Yandell, all physicians. Five others d. as young children: Wilson P.(1830-1836); Margaret,1834-?); Elizabeth P,Oct 1833-Dec 1833); John B 1840-1843; Sarah Nielson, Apr1 846-?).
On March 16, 1831, Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell,Sr., M.D. was called to the Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of Transylvania University. He removed to Louisville in 1837, to join in the establishment of the rival school, the Louisville Medical Institute. Dr. Yandell taught in the combined chairs of Chemistry and Materia Medica. In 1849, Dr. Yandell was placed in the chair of Physiology, for which subject he had a decided taste, and occupied this chair with great credit until he resigned in 1859, to accept a chair in the Medical School of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Civil War he dedicated himself to hospital service. In 1862, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Memphis, and in 1864, was ordained pastor of the Dancyville Presbyterian church. He resigned his pastorship in 1867, and returned to Louisville to resume the practice of medicine.
While resident in Lexington for some years, he was sole editor of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, to which he contributed several able papers. In Louisville he was editor for some time of the Western Journal of Medicine and surgery, in both cases filing the editorial chair with characteristic activity and ability. He was always a contributor to the medical literature of his day in numerous papers, especially in biographical sketches and obituary memoris of medical men of Kentucky and Tennessee.
His social qualities made him always welcome and prominent in all public assemblies of his medical brethen. In 1872, he was elected President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville, and at the time of his death he was President of the Medical Socity of Kentucky.
Dr. Lunsford Pitts Yandell died on February 4, 1878 at the age of 73.
Sources:
1. The history of the medical department of Transylvania University by Doctor Robert Peter (1905); Louisville: John P. Morton & Company; ancestry.com.
2. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century 1878; ancestry.com
3. Ante-bellum Kentucky; ancestry.com.
Lunsford Pitts Yandell was married, in 1825, to Susan Juliet Wendel, daughter of David Wendel and Sarah "Sally Hale (Nielson) Yandell, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Throughout his career, as outlined below, eight children were blessed to their household, only three living to adulthood: David W., Lunsford P.Jr, and William Martin Yandell, all physicians. Five others d. as young children: Wilson P.(1830-1836); Margaret,1834-?); Elizabeth P,Oct 1833-Dec 1833); John B 1840-1843; Sarah Nielson, Apr1 846-?).
On March 16, 1831, Professor Lunsford Pitts Yandell,Sr., M.D. was called to the Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of Transylvania University. He removed to Louisville in 1837, to join in the establishment of the rival school, the Louisville Medical Institute. Dr. Yandell taught in the combined chairs of Chemistry and Materia Medica. In 1849, Dr. Yandell was placed in the chair of Physiology, for which subject he had a decided taste, and occupied this chair with great credit until he resigned in 1859, to accept a chair in the Medical School of Memphis, Tennessee. During the Civil War he dedicated himself to hospital service. In 1862, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Memphis, and in 1864, was ordained pastor of the Dancyville Presbyterian church. He resigned his pastorship in 1867, and returned to Louisville to resume the practice of medicine.
While resident in Lexington for some years, he was sole editor of the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, to which he contributed several able papers. In Louisville he was editor for some time of the Western Journal of Medicine and surgery, in both cases filing the editorial chair with characteristic activity and ability. He was always a contributor to the medical literature of his day in numerous papers, especially in biographical sketches and obituary memoris of medical men of Kentucky and Tennessee.
His social qualities made him always welcome and prominent in all public assemblies of his medical brethen. In 1872, he was elected President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville, and at the time of his death he was President of the Medical Socity of Kentucky.
Dr. Lunsford Pitts Yandell died on February 4, 1878 at the age of 73.
Sources:
1. The history of the medical department of Transylvania University by Doctor Robert Peter (1905); Louisville: John P. Morton & Company; ancestry.com.
2. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century 1878; ancestry.com
3. Ante-bellum Kentucky; ancestry.com.
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