Father: Ralph Ketchum (1780-1852)
Mother: Christiana Colden Griffiths (1782-1861)
1835 - Moved with his parents to Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
1846 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: AL; thesis: "The Morbific Effects of Remedies")
1847-1848 - Volunteered as a "heroic worker" during the yellow fever epidemic (?Mobile, AL)
12/01/1848 - Married, Susan J. Burton (1827-1902) in Delaware
02/22/1850 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL [lived with father, Ralph; Catharine Ketchum (20 y.o. female); and Ralph Ketchum (2 y.o. male)
[Catherine may have been a sister-in-law, and young Ralph may have been a nephew] - Dr. Ketchum is indexed as Geo. A. Ketchum]
04/12/1852 - Father, Ralph, died in Mobile, AL
08/02/1860 - Practiced medicine, Third Ward, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Susan J., one child, and his mother, Christina - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Geo. A. Ketchum)
1861 - Delegate to the Secession Convention, Montgomery, AL, which passed the Alabama Ordinance of Secession
1861 - Mother, Christina, died
05/17/1861 - Appointed, Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
05/17/1861 - Ordered to Pensacola, FL, by the Confederate Secretary of War
05/30/1861 - Resigned as Surgeon, 5th Alabama Infantry
11/22/1863 - Appointed, Surgeon, 1st AL Regiment, Mobile Volunteers for Local Defence [actual spelling]
03/16/1864 - Purchased $10,000 worth of Confederate bonds paying 4% per annum, Mobile, AL [Written on the back of the bond, "State of Ala., Mobile Co.,
Impressment of taxes, I hereby assign the within to Johnny Barnwell, Collector, 49 Dist. Geo A Ketchum [signed] Sept. 24/64, Executed before me, Johnny Barnwell [signed] Collector 49 Dist."
04/00/1864 - Surgeon, 1st AL Regiment, Mobile Volunteers for Local Defence
1870 - Practiced medicine, 7 N. Conception, Mobile, AL (residence: S.E. corner of Chatham and Government)
08/04/1870 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, AL (lived with wife, Susan, and two children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Geo. A. Ketchum)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
06/15/1880 - Practiced medicine, South half of 8th Ward, Port of Mobile, Mobile, AL (lived with wife, Susan, and two daughters - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as George A. Ketchum)
1886 - Dean of the Faculty and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
1890 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
1896 - Practiced medicine, 7 N. Conception, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
1896 - Consulting Physician, City Hospital, Mobile, AL
1896 - Dean of the Faculty and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
11/23/1902 - Wife, Susan, died in her home in Mobile, AL
- Member, General Council, Mobile, AL
- One of the organizers of the Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
- Co-founder, Alabama Medical Association
- President, Mobile Board of Health, Mobile, AL (35 years)
- Member, Alabama State Board of Health
- President, Mobile County Medical Society
- President, Medical Association of the State of Alabama
- Member, American Medical Association
- Member, International Medical Congress
05/29/1906 - Died at his home after an illness of several weeks, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL
(buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/13/2017. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Tim Childree, the creator of this memorial:

George Augustus Ketchum lived in a classic Italianate villa on the southeast corner of Government and Chatham streets, the elaborate mansion was built by the deceased ice magnate Charles Gage. In the spring of 1890, the city of Mobile placed an "Acanthus Fountain" in the center of Bienville Square in honor of Dr. Ketchum's civic achievements.