American Medical Biographies/Plant, William Tomlinson
Plant, William Tomlinson (1836–1898)
William Tomlinson Plant, a medico-legal expert, was born at Marcellus, New York, July 27, 1836, of English ancestry, taking his medical degree at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1860.
At first he settled at Ithaca, New York, later, however, he removed to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, and, in 1861, joined the United States Navy, holding the positions of assistant and past-assistant surgeon. Resigning in 1865, he settled in Syracuse.
In 1866 he married Frances C. Walrath, of Chittenango, New York.
For some years he was professor of clinical medicine and medical jurisprudence in the medical department of the Syracuse University and wrote repeatedly on medico-legal topics, some of his work possessing enduring value. He was the author of a "Succinct History of Medicine of the Last Century."