Richard Owen Currey

Richard Owen Currey (1816–1865) was an American academic, medical doctor and Presbyterian minister. He was a professor at the University of Nashville and the publisher of agrarian and medical journals. During the American Civil War, he was a surgeon and chaplain for the Confederate States Army.

Early life Richard Owen Currey was born on July 28, 1816 in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, Robert Brownlee Currey (1774–1848), served as the mayor of Nashville from 1822 to 1824.

Currey graduated from the University of Nashville in 1836. He attended Transylvania University from 1837 to 1838, where he studied medicine, and he earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1840. In 1850, he left East Tennessee University to teach at the University of Nashville. Chemical Hall Almanac: For the Year of Our Lord 1852...Calculated for the Horizon of Nashville, Tennessee...Will Answer for Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama (W.F. Bang, Republican Banner Office, 1851). A Sketch of the Geology of Tennessee (Kinsloe & Rice, 1857). A Geological Visit to the Virginia Copper Region (1859). The Polk County Copper Company of Tennessee: Its Mineral Resources and Mining Prospects (with Matthew Fontaine Maury, Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1859).