Samuel Kennedy Jennings, M.D.  Click image to enlarge Go to lecture card display Jennings, Samuel Kennedy. 1817. Born in Essex County, N. J., June 6, 1771. Educated at Rutgers College, N. J.; medical student of his father (Dr. Jacob Jennings) ; ordained minister in the M. E. Church; removed to Baltimore in 1817; President, Asbury College, Baltimore, 1817-18; M.D. (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1818. President, Medical Society of Baltimore, 1823-24; a Founder of Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1827; Professor of Materia Medica, Washington Medical College, 1827-39; Professor of Obstetrics, Washington Medical College, 1839-42; Professor of Anatomy, Maryland Academy of Fine Arts, 1838-45; at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1845-53; author of "A Plain, Elementary Exptanation of the Natural Cure of Disease," etc., 8vo, Richmond, Va., 1814; "Letters on the Patent Warm and Hot Bath," etc., 8vo, Norfolk, 1816; "The Married Lady's Companion," 12mo, Richmond; "A Compendium of Medical Science, or Fifty years Experience in the Art of Healing, etc. (with portrait), Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1847. Died at Baltimore, October 19, 1854.