Clement Finley
Clement Alexander Finley (May 11, 1797 – September 8, 1879), was the 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army, May 15, 1861 – April 14, 1862. Early life Clement Finley was born at Newville, Pennsylvania. His father, Samuel Finley, served in the Virginia cavalry during the Revolutionary War attaining the grade of major. President George Washington appointed him receiver of public moneys in the northwest, which position took him to Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1796, where he received a large allotment of land for his Revolutionary War service. Here Clement spent his childhood and youth and obtained his early education. Education With the educational facilities of Chillicothe exhausted, he was sent to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, near his birthplace, to Dickinson College where he was graduated in 1815. He then went to Philadelphia where in 1818 he was given the degree of M.D. by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. On August 30, 1833 he matriculated as a therapeutist at the Therapeutic Institute of Philadelphia. Military His father's military service attracted him to the army, which had recently emerged from the War of 1812, and on August 10, 1818, he was commissioned as a surgeon's mate of the 1st Infantry. The