Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site marks the area where the physician originally from what state settled?
Thomas Walker (explorer) Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a distinguished physician and explorer from Virginia; in the mid-18th century, he was part of an expedition to the region beyond the Allegheny Mountains and the unsettled area of British North America. Walker and fellow Virginian, Indian agent, explorer for Patrick Henry, legislator of three states, surveyor of KY/VA & TN/NC borders, and later Revolutionary war general, Joseph Martin, were some of the first colonialists to travel in this area. Martin's son, Revolutionary War officer Col. William Martin, describes the naming of the area and river in a letter to historian Lyman Draper,
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.