Dates: September 22, 1839 - January 24, 1908.
Lippincott’s youngest son, Col. Aubrey Lippincott, retired to Tucson and donated his father’s medical and anatomy school diplomas and the document his father signed when joining the California Volunteers in 1865 to AHSL.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 354.
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Henry Lippincott
Source: Washita Battlefield, National Historic Site, Oklahoma, National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/waba/learn/historyculture/henry-lipincott.htm [web page viewed 12/19/2016]
Lippincott, Henry, M.D., New Glasgow; Jefferson Med. Col., 1863; died in 1908. Dr. Lippincott was born in 1839, served as assistant surgeon in civil war, saw distinguished service throughout the country, notably in the Indian campaigns with General Custer. Directed the medical department of the Philippine expedition during the Spanish American war under General Merritt, later with General Otis. Returned to America broken in health, but in 1901 was appointed chief surgeon, Department of the East, at Governor's Island, N. Y., the most important medical appointment in the United States army after the post of surgeon general. Was retired when 64. Married Mary Agnes McClenthen, who survives him with two sons, Dr. Walter M. Lippincott and Capt. Aubrey Lippincott, U. S. A. He was a brother of Dr. J. Aubrey Lippincott. Dr. Henry Lippincott was a man of unusually strong character, highest principles and his whole life aptly illustrated by his family motto, secundis dubiiaque fortis.
Source: Pictonians at Home and Abroad, Sketches of Professional Men and Women of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1914.
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J Am Med Assoc. 1884;III(10):280: Official List of Changes in the Stations and
Duties of Officers Serving in the Medical Department, U. S. Army, from Aug. 22, 1884, to Aug. 28, 1884. ... Lippincott, Henry, Promoted Major and Surgeon to rank from August 17, 1884, vice Woodward, deceased.
J Am Med Assoc. 1903;XL(13):858: Promotions Prior to Retirement. The Army papers announce that preliminary to retirement Colonels Charles Smart, Peter J. A. Cleary, Henry Lippincott and Calvin De Witt, assistant surgeons-general, are to be promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1908; L: 473: Henry Lippincott, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; colonel and assistant surgeon general U. S. Army, retired; who served in the Civil War as assistant surgeon of the Sixth California Volunteer Infantry; was made a lieutenant and assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, Feb. 28, 1866; captain and assistant surgeon, Nov. 11, 1868; major and surgeon, Aug. 17, 1884; lieutenant colonel and deputy surgeon general, April 10, 1898; colonel and assistant surgeon general, April 13, 1901, and was retired on account of age, Sept. 22, 1903; performed meritorious service during the cholera epidemic in the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1867; was first chief surgeon of the Department of the Pacific and the Eighth Army Corps and served under General Merritt at Manila and General Otis at the outbreak of the insurrection in the Philippine Islands in 1889; died at his home in Brooklyn, January 24, after a long illness, aged 68.