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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
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Duncan, Gideon M. (Gideon Mitchell), 1843?-1913
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Description area
Dates of existence
1843?-1913
History
Gideon Mitchell Duncan was born about 1842 in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland.
He was a physician in Bathurst, New Brunswick. He was one of the founding members of the New Brunswick Medical Society (1881) and its first secretary. In 1881, he presented a paper “Somewhat About a Few Medicinal Plants of New Brunswick” before the Natural History Society of New Brunswick.
He married Martha Jane Gordon (1843-). He died on October 5, 1913, in Bathurst, Gloucester, New Brunswick.