American Medical Biographies/Shipman, George Elias
Shipman, George Elias (1820–1893)
George Elias Shipman, physician and journalist, was born March 4, 1820, in New York City. He entered Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1832, graduated from the University of New York in 1839 and in 1843 received his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In 1846 he moved to Chicago, where he soon had a large and lucrative practice. In 1848 he founded the Northwestern Journal of Homoeopathy, and edited it for four years. In 1865 he became editor of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal and the next year published the Homoeopathic Guide. In 1871 he established a home for foundlings that had a successful career without state or municipal aid.
Dr. Shipman died in Chicago, January 20, 1893.