Usher Parsons

Usher Parsons

American physician (1788-1868)

📍 Providence, Rhode Island USA

Public Career & Background Dossier

Usher Parsons was an American naval surgeon and physician. After working as a schoolteacher and farmer, he was licensed to practice medicine and enlisted as an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He was acting lead physician on the USS Lawrence during the Battle of Lake Erie. After obtaining his MD from Harvard Medical School, he retired from the navy, served as chair of anatomy and surgery in Dartmouth College and Brown University, and wrote The Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart (1855).

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