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Last name Hosack
First name David
Display name David Hosack
Birth date 1769
Death date 1835
Gender m
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Bio notes Noted physician, botanist, and educator, perhaps most widely known as the doctor who attended to Alexander Hamilton after Hamilton's deadly duel with Aaron Burr. Wrote memoir of De Witt Clinton. Mentored John Eddy. Married 2nd Mary Eddy, sister of Thomas Eddy.

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Life of Thomas Eddy