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Biography
John Golding Bunting, M.D.
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 157


John Golding Bunting, M.D., of Portland, one of the oldest physicians in the
State, who has practiced medicine for sixty years, is a native of St. Johns,
N.B., born September 4, 1820. His parents were the Rev. Joshua and Elizabeth
(Golding) Bunting. His mother, born in New Brunswick, was the daughter of Isaac
Gerow, who was a refugee from New York at the time of the Revolution. Elizabeth
grew to womanhood in her native province, where she was first married to Mr.
Isaac Golding, and some years later to the Rev. Joshua Bunting, a minister of
the Baptist denomination and a native of Clifton, England.

Dr. Bunting acquired his early education in the private schools of New
Brunswick, afterward beginning the study of medicine with Dr. Harding at the
quarantine station on Partridge Island. Having been under Dr. Harding's
instructions for about two years, he crossed the Atlantic and pursued his
studies successively at Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Drummond Street Medical
School in Glasgow. He remained in the latter institution until licensed to
practise. After this he obtained a position as ship physician on the
"Britannia," one of the Cunard steamers, which were then side-wheel boats, and
held it for eighteen months. Subsequently the Doctor attended lectures at the
Boston Medical School, while in the city having an opportunity to listen to many
distinguished speakers, and attended the famous murder trial of Professor
Webster, who killed Dr.Parkman in 1849. Going then to New York, Dr. Bunting
attended lectures under Dr. Valentine Mott at the Crosby Street School of
Medicine. On his return to Boston he was advised to open up practice in Bangor,
Me., which he did, and remained three years. During that time he boarded in a
house with John A. Peters, now Judge Peters, and two other young men who have
since won the same title. He next practiced in Montreal, Canada. While here he
was one of the favored few allowed to study the actual process of digestion
through an opening made in the stomach of St. Martin. Dr. Bunting was then
invited to spend a week in New York by Dr. Delafield, the celebrated physician
and surgeon. He afterward accompanied St. Martin on a tour through the Central
and Southern States, visiting the hospitals and medical colleges in every city
of importance, and then went abroad with him and visited in the same way the
medical colleges of London, Paris, Italy, Spain, Berlin, Vienna, Belgium, and
Russia. The succeeding sixteen years the Doctor spent in traveling in Europe,
gaining valuable information in the leading medical colleges, spending three
years in Paris and two years in London, and subsequently some time under the
instructions of the world-renowned physician, Dr. McKenzie, of London. Returning
to this country Dr. Bunting first located in Cleveland. Thence he went to
Detroit, and afterward spent some time at Niagara Falls and New York City. He
gave up his work there in May, 1891, to come to Portland, where he has since
acquired an extensive practice.