Valentine Mott

He graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and also spent a winter in Edinburgh.

After acting as demonstrator of anatomy he was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia College in 1809.

He translated AALM Velpeau's Operative Surgery, and was foreign associate of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of Paris.

[1] A collection of his correspondence is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

[2] In 1849, the same year he was elected President of the New York Academy of Medicine, Mott and his wife, the former Louisa Dunmore Munn, moved to a four-story Italianate brownstone mansion at #1 Gramercy Park West with their large family.