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Francis Moses Wafer fonds
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1863-1867 (Creation)
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- Wafer, Francis Moses
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0.07 m of textual records, 2 photographs
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Biographical history
The Wafer family were United Empire Loyalists from Vermont who settled in Pittsburgh Township, about nine miles from Kingston, at the end of the revolutionary war. Francis Moses, son of Peter Wafer, was born in 1830. He was accepted by Queen's Medical Faculty in 1861, completed his second year of studies and then enlisted in the Union forces at Albany, serving to the end of the American Civil War. He returned to Queen's in 1865 and graduated with an M.D. in 1867. Having contracted tuberculosis during the war, Wafer was too ill to engage in medical practice upon graduation. A year later, having regained strength, he was appointed Demonstrator in Anatomy at Queen's and set up a private practice with Dr. Michael Sullivan. In 1875 he was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical Faculty but died the following year, aged forty-five.
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The fonds consists of a narrative and correspondence written by Dr. Wafer as a surgeon for the Union Army during the American Civil War. The collection also contains two photographs of Francis Wafer, one by famous photographer M. Brady, and one coloured with Wafer in army uniform. There are also several medical/student cards.
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Immediate source of acquisition
Original journal donated by Mrs. John Clunan (great-granddaughter of Wafer), 1957. Donated by Dr. Merlin Donald and Arthur P. Donald - 1990
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- English
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3178.1
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See also "A Queen's Medical Student in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-64" in Douglas Library Notes, Dec 1957.
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No further accruals are expected