Bancroft, Jesse P. (1815-1891)

Name:

Bancroft, Jesse P. (1815-1891)

Title:

Demonstrator of Anatomy, Brunswick Medical College
Assistant Teacher, Pinkerton Academy, Derry, 1844
Member, Vermont State Legislature, 1853
Superintendant, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, 1857-1882
Treasurer, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, 1857-1890
President, New England Psychological Society

Other Names:

Bancroft, Jesse Parker

Born:

04/17/1815

Birthplace:

Gardner, MA

Died:

04/30/1891

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Gardner, MA
Derry, NH 1844
St. Johnsbury, VT 1845-1857
Concord, NH 1857-

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Physician

Father:

Bancroft, Jonathan

Mother:

Parker, Betsey

Spouse:

Married Elizabeth Spear, November 1, 1845, Boston, MA

Children:

Charles P.

Notes:

Marriage Notice, Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, November 7, 1845.

Appointment Notice, Lowell Daily citizen and News, Lowell, Massachusetts, May 11, 1857.

Resignation Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, January 26, 1882.

Obituary, Boston Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, April 30, 1891.

Joseph B. Walker, Memorial of the Life and Services of Jesse Parker Bancroft, M.D.: For Twenty-Five Years the Superintendant of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. Concord, New Hampshire: Ira C. Evans, 1891.

James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Concord New Hampshire, From the Original Grant in Seventween Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Volume II. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903), 940-941.

William F. Drewry, et.al., The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada... Volume 4. 345-347.

Ezra S. Stearns, History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, From the Grant of Dorchester Canada... 598.