Thomas Story Kirkbride was born July 31, 1809 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. He began a study of medicine under a Dr. Nicholas Belleville, of Trenton, New Jersey, when he was eighteen. After his formal education at University of Pennsylvania Medical School (1828 - 1832), Kirkbride originally sought to become a surgeon. However, in 1840 an offer to become superintendent of the newly established Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane was presented to him. He accepted for largely practical reasons. His training and experience interning at Friends' Asylum and at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital provided him with the necessary background for the position. As Superintendent he became one of the most prominent authorities on mental health care in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Morrisville is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Morrisville, Greene County, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Kirkbride's influential work, On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals For the Insane With Some Remarks on Insanity and Its Treatment was published in 1854, and again in 1880.
Kirkbride was a founding member of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII) — forerunner of the American Psychiatric Association — serving first as secretary, then later as president. Kirkbride promoted a standardized method of asylum construction and mental health treatment, popularly known as the Kirkbride Plan, which significantly influenced the entire American asylum community during his lifetime. The American Psychiatric Association is a professional organization of psychiatrists whose members are American and international physicians who are trained in psychiatry. ... The Kirkbride Plan refers to a system of mental asylum design advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-1800s. ...
With his patients, Kirkbride aroused enough animosity in one to inspire attempted murder (which Kirkbride narrowly escaped). More often his patients appreciated him. In an extreme example, Dr. Kirkbride actually married a former patient after his first wife passed away.[1]
The Bowen building, which was once the main hospital and housed the morgue was demolished sometime before the year 2002 and in the spring of 2002, the Singer building, which once housed the pharmacy, diagnostic and other medical services was demolished.
Most recently, in December of 2002, the old power house was leveled and 4 of the two story cottages (Wines, Dewey, Pinel and White) were demolished in the summer of 2003.
Kirkbride's idea became synonymous with the "congregate plan" and there were many asylums and hospitals built on this plan throughout the world, including the Jacksonville State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Thomas is further said to be the son of John Clayton (AFN:S7NT-CP) and an unknown wife (AFN:S7NT-DV).
If Ellen Cowgill was in fact the sister to Thomas Stackhouse, Sr., then her son John would have been bound in service to his aunt’s brother Cuthbert Hayhurst, who would have had thus a further stake in seeing him reared properly.
The story I heard was the the Bishop of Northamptonshire, on religious grounds, had refused the Mormons permission to film them.
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