Edward Cutbush (1772 – July 23, 1843) was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794, where he was resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1790 to 1794. Cutbush was surgeon general of the Pennsylvania militia during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion. He was an officer and a surgeon in the United States Navy and was commissioned into office in 1799. Cutbush has been called the father of American naval medicine. He resigned from the Navy in 1829, after 30 years of service. During 1826, he was a professor of chemistry at Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1834, he relocated to Geneva, New York, where he founded Geneva Medical College, currently known as State University of New York Upstate Medical University. During his tenure there, he served as the first dean and professor of chemistry. References External links Penn Library: Smith Image Collection Naval Medicine in 1812. Mayer, Nancy The United States' naval chronicle, 1824 Naval Register of 1826 Penn's College and University Founders. Scott W. Hawley, 2002 The Philadelphia medical and physical journal. Barton M.D., Benjamin Smith, 1808 In Old Washington (Navy Yards), James Groggon Articles, Evening Star, November 12, 1910 List of Officers, Dates of Commissions, and Length of Service at Sea Communicated to the House of Representatives, January 23, 1814 1772 births 1843 deaths Hobart and William Smith Colleges people University of Pennsylvania alumni Physicians from Philadelphia Educators from New York (state) State University of New York Upstate Medical University faculty People of colonial Pennsylvania People of the Whiskey Rebellion Physicians from Pennsylvania Physicians from New York (state) United States Navy Medical Corps officers