Joseph Booth

[J Hewitt]

Joseph Booth younger brother of John Wilkes, was said to be a Doctor. Queston is did have that degree or was he like some surgeons and doctors of that time just practicing without any crdentials?

[RJNorton]

John, in Kimmel's The Mad Booths of Maryland it says he received a medical degree from New York University in 1889. Afterwards "he became attending physician at the Northern Dispensary in Christopher Street, intermittently lecturing on surgery at various institutions in the city."

[J Hewitt]

Thank you Roger!