George huntington biography

George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an.
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History of Huntington’s Disease

George Huntington

George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician from Long Island, New York who contributed the clinical description of the disease that bears his name — Huntington’s disease. Dr. Huntington wrote his paper “On Chorea”when he was 22 years old, a year after receiving his medical degree from Columbia University in New York. “On Chorea”was first published in the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia on April 13, 1872.

In the 100+ years since the death of George Huntington in 1916, the disorder he described as a ‘medical curiosity’ has become a focus of intense medical and scientific interest, in part because of the contribution of families in generating knowledge about this family disease. As many writers have noted, George Huntington’s own family played a crucial role in defining this illness. What has been less appreciated is that the affected families he described also played a role, in ways that George Huntington himself acknowledged. Not quite 22 years old, just graduated from C

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George Huntington Hartford

American politician (1833–1917)

George Huntington Hartford (September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest retailer. He joined the firm as a clerk in 1861 and quickly assumed managerial responsibilities. When A&P's founder, George Gilman, retired in 1878, Hartford entered into a partnership agreement and ran the company until the founder's death in 1901. In the settlement of Gilman's estate, Hartford acquired control of the company and ultimately purchased the interests of Gilman's heirs.^[1]

Hartford was born on a farm in Augusta, Maine, and started his retail career at age 18 in Boston. By 1861, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, where he married Marie Josephine Ludlum (1837–1925). They had three sons and two daughters. Although he was known to be a private person, Hartford was elected mayor of Orange, New Jersey, in 1878 and served for 12 years. Hartford

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To the memory of Magdalena P. and all my patients with Huntington’s disease that I was unable to help as I wished.

The nineteenth century was a time when specializations evolved from general medicine. General physicians, out of necessity dealing with the majority of their patients’ health problems, sometimes made important observations relevant to particular emerging specializations. For instance, a single article might unintentionally become an unquestioned and significant contribution to the development of a specific field of medicine. A good example in this context is George Huntington, the American family doctor after whom Huntington’s disease (or Huntington’s chorea) is named.

George Huntington (Fig. 1) was born on April 9, 1850, in East Hampton on Long Island, New York, to a family with a rich medical tradition. He represented the third generation of physicians: his father, George Lee Huntington (1811–1881), had continued the medical practice opened by his own father, Abel Huntington (1777–1858). George Junior graduated from the Clinton Academy in his native town and,