Person Record Title

Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (1790-1860)

Identifier

NJS-PER-00733

Given Name

Ferdinand Schureman

Family Name

Schenck

Birth Date

11 February 1790

Death Date

16 May 1860

Sex

Male

Occupation

Medical and Funerary

Government

Biographical Description

Ferdinand Schureman Schenck was born in Millstone, Somerset County, New Jersey, in 1790. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York (Columbia University) and set up a medical practice at Six Mile Run (now Franklin Park, NJ) after graduating in 1814. As part of his medical practice, he sometimes provided medical treatment for enslaved people in the area.

He was also a politician and served as a U.S. Congressman from 1833 to 1837. He was a Rutgers trustee from 1841 until his death in 1860.

The Ferdinand Schureman Schenck Papers are housed at Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries (call number MC 1095).

Keywords

white person

Rutgers history

doctor with Black patients

Place of Significance

Millstone (Somerset County)

Six Mile Run

Organization

Rutgers University

Relationship to Rutgers

Trustee (1841-1860)

Child of

Martin Schenck (1770-1823)

Same As

Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress)

Bibliographic Citation

Ferdinand Schureman Schenck Papers (MC 1095), Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

Record Contributor

Jesse Bayker