Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD 1857
1833 – 1900
Physician
Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed
Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School
First African American Graduate of Yale
First African American to earn an MD from an Ivy League Medical School
1st Lieutenant and Surgeon of the 31st Regiment US Colored Troops 1864
One of nine African American physicians to serve in the Union Army
Physician at the Knight US Army General Hospital, New Haven
Member of the Connecticut Medical Society and the Colored Freedmen's Aid Society
Expert consultant on President James A. Garfield's assassination
[ west side of the obelisk ]
John W. Creed
SBT.
[ east side of the obelisk ]
Vashti S. Creed
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Grove Street and High Street, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
