John Murray Carnochan

John Murray Carnochan (July 4, 1817 – October 28, 1887)

Career Devoting himself with ardor to the study of anatomy, he acquired special distinction in that field and gave lectures to private classes. In 1841, he again visited Europe, where he passed several years attending clinical lectures of the principal hospitals of Paris, London and Edinburgh.

Soon after beginning the practice of surgery in New York City, Carnochan attained a high reputation on account of his success in operations never before attempted. In 1852 he severed and tied the femoral artery, effecting a cure in an exaggerated case of nutrition (elephantiasis arabrum). The same year he removed an entire lower jaw, with both condyles. His professional activity continued almost to the day of his death; so in September 1887, a month before he died, he attended the International Medical Congress at Washington and read two papers.

Personal life He married Estelle Morris (1838–1922), a daughter of Major-General William Walton Morris who commanded at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, during the U.S. Civil War. She was a great-granddaughter of Lewis Morris, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Harriet Frances Putnam Carnochan (1857–1905), who married Thomas William Ludlow III (1857–1894), the eldest son of Thomas W. Ludlow Jr., in 1879. Mary Morris Carnochan (1859–1892), who married J. Lawrence Aspinwall (1854–1936), an architect with Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell. After a funeral at his home conducted by The Rev. Dr. William Reed Huntington of Grace Church, he was buried at the Morris family cemetery, St. Ann's Episcopal Church Cemetery in the Bronx. His widow died in New York City, on December 9, 1922, aged 84.

Descendants Through his eldest daughter, he was the grandfather of Julia Elektra Ludlow (1879–1920), who married Richard Mortimer Young in 1901;

Through his son Gouverneur, he was the grandfather of John Murray Carnochan, an ethnologist and explorer, (who was father of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan Jr., Eleanor Carnochan, and W. B. Carnochan).