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Note: One of the14 Doctors present at Petersen Boarding House the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, Source "BLOOD ON THE MOON THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ", by EDWARD STEERS JR. page# 313 note #25 other Sources include; THE DIARY OF GIDEON WELLES(1911); Panati, Charles, and Morse John T. editor Walter Reed Army Medical Museum of Pathology(lists 18 physicians present), among numerous others. An excerpt from Gideon Welles Diary, "Several surgeons were present, at least six, I should think more. Among them I was glad to observe Doctor Hall, who, however, soon left. I inquired of Doctor Hall, as I entered, the true condition of the President. He replied the President was dead to all intents, although he might live three hours or perhaps longer". Excerpt from the summer of 2003 edition of the "Tennessee Historical Quarterly", copyrighted 2003 to the Tennessee Historical Society.] James Crowdhill Hall (1805-1880) Several accounts credit James Hall as the family physician of every United States president from Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln. In Jackson's collected correspondence there is a receipt, dated January 1, 1832, "to operating for hydrocele and subsequent attendance, $30.00." It is uncertain who was the surgical patient, but presumably it was the president. In addition, Hall charged Jackson another $70 for various minor surgical treatments of the Jackson family between 1832 and 1835.37 Hall was "the head of his profession in the city of Washington D.C. For many years he attended the family of every justice of the Supreme Court, the family of every cabinet member, every prominent United States senator and representative, and members of foreign legations, in addition to taking care of the medical needs of many presidents of the period. Hall also served the community with distinction during the 1832 cholera epidemic. A bachelor, he was a member of all the important regional medical societies, and also prominent in the establishment and maintenance of many of the capital's philanthropic and cultural institutions. He was one of the founding trustees of the famed Corcoran Art Gallery. Chronic illnesses of an unspecified identity curtailed his activities during the later years of his life, and he died unexpectedly in 1880 from a brief terminal illness.38 He was born in Alexandria, then a part of Washington, D.C. He was an 1823 graduate of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, where he received an A.B. degree. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas Henderson of Georgetown, and in 1825 began the first of two series of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from that school in 1827.39 A year as a resident physician at Blockley Hospital in Pennsylvania preceded his return to Washington. He commenced his private practice there and on the side taught anatomy to medical students. From 1830 to 1839 Hall was professor of surgery at Columbia College in that city. His increasing consultative practice forced him to abandon his formal teaching career.40 36. Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson, III, 608; Roos, Physicians to the Presidents," 307. 37. Ibid., 310-316; History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia 1817-1909, 228; "The Late Dr. Hall," Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 52 (January-June 1880): 621; Library of Congress, Jackson Correspondence,
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