John B. Hamilton

John B. Hamilton (1 December 1847 – 24 December 1898) was an American physician and soldier. He was appointed the second Surgeon General of the United States from 1879 to 1891.

Famous quotes containing the words john b, john and/or hamilton:

    “Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    ““Last night there was four Maries,
    The night there’ll be but three;
    There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beton,
    And Marie Carmichael, and me.””
    —Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 69–72)