The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bache, Benjamin Franklin (surgeon)

BACHE, Benjamin Franklin, surgeon, was born at Monticello, Va., Feb. 7. 1801; son of William and Catharine (Wistar) Baclie. grandson of Richard and Sarah (Franklin) Bache, and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. He was educated at Princeton, was graduated in 1819, and took his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1823. He entered the navy as surgeon in 1824, and served in Pensacola navy yard and with the Mediterranean and Brazil squadrons. He held the chair of chemistry in Kenyon college in 1838-'41, and was for some years director of the New York naval hospital. He was retired in 1871 with the rank of commodore, and died in New York city, Nov. 3, 1881.