Agnew, David Hayes

1818 - Agnew was born in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania on November 24, 1818.

1838 - Graduated with a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

1841 - Married to Margaret Irwin.

1846 - Helped found the Irwin and Agnew Iron Foundry.

1852 - Bought and revived the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.

1854 - Appointed as a surgeon at the Philadelphia Hospital and he was the founder of its pathological museum.

1863-1889 - Agnew was connected with the medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.

1870 - Elected as a professor of operative surgery.

1871 - Agnew became the professor of the principles and practice of surgery.

1865-1884 - Became the surgeon at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

1881 - Attended as an operating surgeon to President Garfield that was fatally wounded by a bullet of an assassin.

1878-1883 - Published his work "The Principles and Practice of Surgery".

1892 - Died in Philadelphia on March 22, 1892.