Educated at Columbia College, he was professor of natural history at Columbia and had nine children by three wives. He was the physician who treated Alexander Hamilton following his fatal duel with Aaron Burr.

REFERENCES TO David Hosack:

William Grenville Graham to Cyrus Redding, [1826?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)