Thomas B. Harvey

Thomas B. Harvey (November 29, 1827 – December 5, 1889) was a medical doctor who served as the examining surgeon for Union soldiers in Indianapolis during the American Civil War.

Education and career Born in Clinton County, Ohio, his father was a physician and teacher, and his education began in his father's school at Harveysburg, in Warren County, Ohio. In 1846 be began the study of medicine, and two years later graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati.

When the Indiana Medical College was organized in Indianapolis in 1869, he became a professor of children's and women's health, Their son, Lawson Harvey, served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court; another son, Frank, drowned while skating at Harvard College.

On the afternoon of December 5, 1827, Harvey was lecturing on the effects of blood clots when he collapsed in the lecture room. He tried to continue the lecture, but lapsed into unconsciousness, and died at his home later that evening, at the age of 62.