Edward D. Kittoe, M.
D., of Galena, Ill., died on Friday, September 29th, in the seventy-fourth year
of his age. The deceased was a native of England and was graduated in 1841 from
the Pennsylvania Medical College, an institution that was closed in 1861. After
practicing his profession for several years in Muncy, Pa., he moved, in 1851,
to Galena. In 1862 he was appointed surgeon in the Forty-fifth Regiment of
Illinois Volunteers, and in the same year was commissioned a surgeon in the
United States Volunteers and served on the staff of General Sherman until 1864.
He was subsequently on the staff of General Grant until appointed a medical
inspector and reassigned to General Sherman's staff. After the fall of Atlanta
he was appointed medical inspector to the Department of the Northwest, and in
December, 1865, was mustered out of the service with the brevet rank of Colonel
of United States Volunteers. During his residence in Pennsylvania he was a
member of the State Medical Society, and one of its vice-presidents in
1850-'51.
SOURCE: Frank P. Foster, M. D., Editor, The New York Medical Journal, a Weekly Review of Medicine, Vol. 46, July to December, 1887, Inclusive, p. 409 (New York, Saturday October 8, 1887)
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