A portrait photograph of Edward M. Hartwell, M.D. Edward Mussey Hartwell was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1850. Hartwell received his bachelor's degree in 1873, and became vice-principal at a school in New Jersey before taking a position at the Boston Latin School. He left Boston to pursue medical studies at Miami Medical College in Cincinnati in 1877, but chose to enroll at Johns Hopkins University the next year for biology. A year after earning an advanced degree from Hopkins, Hartwell completed a medical degree at Miami in 1882. Hartwell then joined the Hopkins faculty as an associate in physical training and director of the gymnasium.
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