John Allan Wyeth

John Allan Wyeth
BornMay 26, 1845
DiedMay 22, 1922(1922-05-22) (aged 76)
Resting placeGreen-Wood Cemetery
Education
Spouses
  • Florence Nightingale Sims
    (m. 1886; died 1915)
  • Marguerite Chalifoux
    (m. 1918)
Children3, including Marion Sims Wyeth and John Allan Wyeth
RelativesJ. Marion Sims (father-in-law)
John Wyeth in the Civil War
Statue of John Wyeth on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

John Allan Wyeth (May 26, 1845 – May 22, 1922) was an American Confederate veteran and surgeon. Born and raised on a Southern plantation in Alabama, he served in the Confederate States Army and completed his medical studies in New York City and Europe. He became a surgeon in New York City, where he founded the New York Polyclinic Graduate Medical School and Hospital, a medical school. He served as the president of the American Medical Association in 1902. He was the author of a biography of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a proponent of the annexation of Mexico by the United States.