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Sep 20, 1798 Charleston, South Carolina, United States Died on 31 Mar 1872 (aged 73)
American poet, physician, writer and educator
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About Samuel Henry Dickson
- Samuel Henry Dickson (September 20, 1798 - March 31, 1872) was an American poet, physician, writer and educator born in Charleston, South Carolina. Dickson graduated from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.
- He was one of the founders of the Medical College of South Carolina.
- He also taught at NYU and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Dickson was a popular published poet and a leader in Charleston intellectual circles.
- He was friends with Charleston poet William Gilmore Simms and William Cullen Bryant.
- He and his brother Dr.
- John Dickson played a significant role in the medical education of the US's first female doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.
- He was also active in organizing the first railway in the U.S.
- by helping bring the locomotive "the Best Friend of Charleston" into service.
- Dickson was a frequent lecturer; his addresses included a Phi Beta Kappa Address at Yale in 1842.
- In recent years, he has received attention for his proslavery writings.Dickson died in Philadelphia in 1872.
