Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Hunt, of Indianapolis, was elected twelfth president of the Association at the 1872 meeting at Niagara Falls. A resolution was adopted at that meeting recognizing and honoring Doctor Horace Wells as the introducer of anesthesia in the United States. Doctor Hunt was president of the Indiana State Dental Association from 1861 to 1864 and was again elected to that office in 1871. He invented several devices and methods useful to practicing dentists. He was born in Ohio in 1827 and died in 1896.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1872-1873: Phineas George Canning Hunt" (1977). ADA Presidents. 54.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/54
Included in
Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.