Lunsford Yandell was one of the founders and first professors at the University of Louisville.
19 Facts About Lunsford Yandell
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Lunsford Yandell taught at Transylvania University and the Memphis Medical College.
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Lunsford Pitts Yandell was born on July 4,1805, in Hartsville, Tennessee to Elizabeth and Dr Wilson Yandell.
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Lunsford Yandell's father practiced medicine in Hartsville and Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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Lunsford Yandell attended the 1822 to 1823 session at Transylvania University and would graduate from the University of Maryland in 1825.
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In 1831, Lunsford Yandell accepted the Chair of Chemistry in the medical department of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Lunsford Yandell served as Chair of Chemistry, but would later transfer to Chair of Physiology and Pathological Anatomy.
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Lunsford Yandell replaced his friend Charles Caldwell in this role, which caused a rift between the two men in Caldwell's later years.
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Lunsford Yandell developed and directed the construction of the first medical building at the University of Louisville.
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In 1859, Lunsford Yandell resigned from the University of Louisville and moved to Memphis, Tennessee.
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Lunsford Yandell worked as a professor of Theory and Practice at the Memphis Medical College until it closed due to the American Civil War.
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Lunsford Yandell briefly served in the medical corps of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
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Lunsford Yandell was a member of the Presbyterian Church and became licensed in 1862 as a preacher in Tennessee.
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Lunsford Yandell was the founding editor of the Western Journal of Medicine.
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Lunsford Yandell worked as an editor for The Transylvania Medical Journal.
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Lunsford Yandell published works in history, biography, education, geology and paleontology.
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Lunsford Yandell published the article On the Distribution of the Crinoidea in the Western States about the class Crinoidea.
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Lunsford Yandell served as the president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville in 1872 and president of the Medical Society of Kentucky the year he died.
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Lunsford Yandell received a Master of Arts honorary degree from the University of Nashville in 1838.