David Jones Peck, M.D.
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Last updated April 2005
David Jones Peck was born in about 1826 or 1827.
He grew up in Pennsylvania, and attended the
Rush Medical College in Chicago, graduating
in 1847. He set up practice in Philadelphia,
but shortly thereafter he moved to Central America.
No known records on Dr. Peck exist after about
1855; his death date and burial location are
unknown. Additionally, no photographs of Dr.
Peck are known to be in existence.
Primary Sources at Rush University Medical
Center Archives
To request duplicates of these items, contact
the Archives.
David Jones Peck, M.D., Rush Medical
College, Class of 1847. Brief biographical
article written by Archives staff in September,
1997. Archives of Rush University Medical Center,
Biographical Reference Collection, David Jones
Peck file.
Fifth Annual Announcement for 1847-48 and Catalogue
for 1847-48 of Rush Medical College. Chicago:
Robert Fergus & Co., 1847. Archives of Rush
University Medical Center, C94-037, Box 1.
Ingersoll, John L. Among the Alumni.
The Corpuscle. Vol. 3 No. 7 (April, 1894): pp.
203-204. Archives of Rush University Medical
Center, C94-037, Box 36.
Plaque dedicating Chicago Transit Authority's
Polk Street Station to the memory of Dr. David
Jones Peck, January 14, 1984. In Medical Center
Archives Plaque collection.
Primary Sources Elsewhere
Contact the agency listed in each citation
to obtain the materials.
Mayor Washington and Chairman Cardilli
Dedicate CTA’s New Polk Street Station.
CTA News (press release), Tuesday, January 18,
1984. From Freedom of Information Office, Chicago
Transit Authority, Chicago, Illinois. [http://www.transitchicago.com].
McElroy’s Philadelphia Directory for 1849. Philadelphia:
Edward C. & John Biddle, 1849. Page 292. From
African American Historical and Cultural Museum,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [http://www.aampmuseum.org/].
Passport application and supporting documents
for David Jones Peck, MD, January 2-11, 1851.
Indexes to Passports, 1850-1852. From National
Archives and Records Administration [http://www.nara.gov].
Articles
For all sources listed below, contact your
local public or university library.
Carpenter, Mackenzie. 1882 Home for Retired
Domestics Still Thrives. Pittsburg Post-Gazette,
Monday, February 7, 1994, pp. B-1 and B-4. Includes
information about Peck’s sister Mary Peck Bond
who founded the home.
Cobb, W. M. Dr. David J. Peck, First Negro
Graduate from an American Medical School.
Bulletin of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of
the District of Columbia. February 6, 1949,
page 3.
Colorphobia. The Pittsburg
Daily Dispatch. Thursday, February 10, 1848,
p. 2.
Farmer, Harold E. An Account of the Earliest
Colored Gentleman in Medical Science in the
United States. Bulletin of the History of
Medicine Vol. 8 (1940), pp. 599-620.
Harris, Michael J. David Jones Peck, MD:
A Dream Denied. Journal of the National
Medical Association. Vol. 88 No. 9, pp. 600-604.
Wilson, Donald E. and Jeanette M. Kaczmarek.
The History of African-American Physicians
and Medicine in the United States. Journal
of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians.
Vol. 4 No. 3 (July, 1993): pp. 93-98.
Books
For all sources listed below, contact your
local public or university library.
Curtis, James L. Blacks, Medical Schools and
Society. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan
Press, 1971.
International Library of Negro Life and History.
Volume 3: The History of the Negro in Medicine.
New York: Publishers Co., 1967.
Rollin, Frank. Martin R. Delaney. Boston, 1868.
Sammons, Vivian Ovelton. Blacks in Science and
Medicine. New York: Hemisphere Publishing Corp.,
1990. Page 187.
Weaver, George H. Beginnings of Medical Education
in and near Chicago: The Institutions and the
Men. Chicago: Press of American Medical Association,
1925. Page 108.
Woodson, Carter G. The Education of the Negro
Prior to 1861. Washington, 1919.
Internet Links
Anderson, Nichel. The First African-American
Physicians: Three Pioneers [https://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/harlem_renaissance/89272].
The First Three African American Physicians
[http://ohoh.essortment.com/africanamerican_rqdo.htm].
To Be More Than Equal: The Many Lives
of Martin R. Delany, 1812-1885 [http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm].
Townsend, Peggy Jean and Charles Walker Townsend
III, eds. Milo Adams Townsend and Social
Movements of the Nineteenth Century, Chapter
12, William Lloyd Garrison [http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/booklengthdocuments/AMilobook/title.html].
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