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Fendall, E. D. (Edward D.), 1814-

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  • Person
  • 1814-1883

Rev. Edward Davies Fendall was born about 1813 in Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

He was an American clergyman. Although reared in the Episcopalian Church, he became a Baptist through careful reading and study of the New Testament. He was ordained in 1839 and served in several parishes in New Jersey. After a few years spent in teaching, he became pastor at Moorestown, New Jersey in 1852. In 1854, he was chosen clerk of the West Jersey Association. In the late 1860s, he moved to Philadelphia where he served as a Reverend from 1868-1877. In 1877, he wrote “The Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of the West New Jersey Baptist Association, Held with the Woodbury Baptist Church”.

About 1843 he married Elizabeth Powell (1820-1889). He died on December 13, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Fenwick, George Edgeworth, 1825-1894

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  • Person
  • 1825-1894

George Fenwick was born in Québec City and received his early medical training at the Marine and Emigrant Hospital in that city. In 1847 he earned his M.D., C.M. from McGill. After two years as house surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital, Fenwick entered private practice and helped establish the Montreal Diet Dispensary. In 1860, he received his first appointment to McGill's Medical Faculty as Professor of anatomy. In 1864, he returned to the Montreal General, and took charge of the Medical Museum at McGill. He taught medical jurisprudence from 1868 until 1875, and in that year became Professor of clinical surgery, a post he held until his retirement as Emeritus Professor in 1890. Fenwick also founded the Canadian Medical Journal in 1864 and served as its editor until 1879. He passed away in 1894.

Fenwick, Thomas, 1830-1905

  • Person
  • 1830-1905

Thomas Fenwick was born on March 16, 1830, in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

He was a Presbyterian clergyman and painter. Born in Scotland, Fenwick emigrated to Canada where he attended Knox College in Toronto (1853-1859). After he was ordained in 1861, he ministered in Métis, Quebec, until 1884. While ministering to the Presbyterians at Leggatt’s Point Church in Métis, he painted in his spare time. In the 1870s, his watercolours of the Métis Falls, the lighthouse in Métis-sur-Mer and entrance to the village were printed as lithographs in the Canadian Illustrated News and its companion publication, L’Opinion Publique, the most popular illustrated magazines available in Canada. He eventually settled in Woodbridge, Carleton County, Ontario.

He died on July 21, 1905, in Woodbridge, Ontario.

Ferencz, Charlotte

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  • Person
  • 1921-2016

Dr. Charlotte Ferencz was born in Budapest, Hungary on October 28, 1921. She obtained her education in her native country until an employment opportunity for her engineer father brought the family to Montreal, Canada in May 1939. She entered McGill University that fall and earned a Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction in 1944 and a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degree in 1945. After internships at the Montreal General Hospital, Saskatoon City Hospital, and Kingston General Hospital, she became a resident in pediatrics at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Montreal and obtained a research fellowship in the Cardiology Department in 1948-49. In 1950, Dr. Ferencz went to Baltimore, MD as a Fellow in Pediatrics under the direction of Dr. Helen B. Taussig and became her associate in the Cardiac Clinic 1954-59. After appointments in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Cincinnati and State University of New York at Buffalo (1958-1973). She earned a degree at the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1970 and in 1973 joined the University of Maryland, where she rose to become Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. In 1981 she became Senior Associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. With funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute she embarked on the most important project of her career in 1981 as Principal Investigator of the regional Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, a population-based study of congenital heart disease. Drawing on the resources of five Pediatric Cardiology Centers, 53 regional hospitals, and more than 800 physicians the study included 4390 cases and 3572 controls over the years 1981-1989. Her findings are published as volumes 4 and 5 of the series "Perspectives in Pediatric Cardiology. In 2005 she collaborated in the development of a new website of the Health Sciences Human Services Library, University of Maryland, entitled " Congenital heart disease—a Public Health perspective."

Ferguson, Archibald, 1791-1876

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  • 1791-1876

Archibald Ferguson lived in Montreal. In his burial record he was described as a gentleman and Elder of the Church of Saint Paul. He died on 12 October 1876 of gangrene.

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