Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site marks the area where the physician originally from what state settled?
Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site is a park located six miles southeast of Barbourville in Knox County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The land was donated by the American Legion and the people of Barbourville, and marks the area where Kentucky pioneer Thomas Walker, a physician, built his cabin in 1750. A representative cabin marks the spot of "the first house in Kentucky". The site was dedicated in 1931. A replica of the cabin can be toured.
John Knowlton Bartlett Bartlett was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1816. He graduated from Yale University in 1838 and from the Yale School of Medicine in 1841. Later that year, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and opened a medical practice. Bartlett would serve as Vice President of the American Medical Association in 1872, Vice President of the International Medical Congress that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876 and President of the Wisconsin State Medical Society from 1877 to 1878. He died in 1889.