William S. Forbes
William Smith Forbes was an American physician who served as demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College. He is known as the "Father of the Anatomical Act" in Pennsylvania.Biography
William Smith Forbes.
Forbes also brought suit against the executors of the estate of Robert Lenox Kennedy to recover $5,000 after he accompanied Kennedy to Europe as his physician, where the family said it was as a friend. The New York Supreme court sided with the Kennedy family.
Forbes is the subject of the 1905 painting Portrait of Professor William S. Forbes by Thomas Eakins.
