John Holston portrait   Save
Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County
Description: Portrait of Dr. John G. F. Holston. Holston was born in 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. After travelling the world as a cabin boy, he landed in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Washington College and graduated with honors. He attended Cleveland College where he studied medicine. He was later called to be chair of surgery in the National Medical College at Washington. He served in the Civil War for the Union, and was eventually promoted to serve as medical director in General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff. After the war, he opened a medical practice in Zanesville, Ohio, but soon moved back to Washington D.C., where he was appointed a professor of anatomy at Georgetown Medical School and served as physician to President Grant’s family. Holston married Mary Ann Campbell, with whom he had eight children. He died on May 1, 1874 at the age of sixty-five. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07669
Subjects: Medicine--History; Zanesville (Ohio); Veterans; Immigrants--Ohio
Places: Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County