Dr. Timothy Phelps Beers
American, 1789 - 1858
Beers graduated from Yale in 1808, studied medicine in New Haven, attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, served as Surgeon for a militia regiment stationed in New London in 1813, then spent the rest of his life practicing medicine in New Haven. He was Professor of Obstetrics at Yale from 1830 to 1856 and lived on Church Street.
The Yale University Art Gallery owns a portrait of Dr. Timothy Phelps Beers, by Nathaniel Jocelyn (accession number unknown).
Person TypeIndividual
American, 1754 - 1825
American, active 1870