Joseph Kirby Corson

Major united States Army; born in Montgomery County, Pa., Nov. 22, 1836. He was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania as M.D. in 1863. He served in the Civil War as corporal and sergeant, Company K, Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, April 20 to July 26, 1861; was appointed assistant surgeon Thirty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, March 23, 1863; and brevetted major of Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services in the Wilderness campaign in Virginia, and honorably mustered out of Volunteer service, June 11, 1864. Dr. Corson was appointed assistant surgeon United States Army, Oct. 9, 1867; major surgeon, Nov. 14, 1888; awarded a medal of honor by Congress, April 21, 1899, for most distinguished gallantry in action near Bristoe Station, Va., Oct. 14, 1863; retired Nov. 30, 1897. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and Sons of the Revolution. Address: Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 166.

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