Distinguished Citizens of
Allegany County
Excerpts from History of Allegany
County
by Williams and Thomas (1923)
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A polished, educated gentleman, who combined the practice of medicine with the drug business, making a specialty of the compounding of drugs. For may years he conducted the drug business at the corner of Baltimore and Mechanic streets in Cumberland. He belonged to a highly respectable New England family. Prior to settling in Cumberland he resided in Baltimore. His father was a prominent minister of the Gospel, and for many years had a charge at Frederick, Maryland. Doctor Zacharias, at the age of twenty years, at the outbreak of the Civil War joined the Confederate Army and became distinguished as a surgeon. During the service he introduced the treatment of sloughy and gangrenous wounds that had become infected with maggots. The treatment was not original with him, but was mentioned and advocated by some of the older medical writers. The treatment became general in the Southern Army and is now generally practiced in the profession and is recognized as a most effectual treatment.
He was prominently instrumental in the founding of St. Mark's Reformed Church at the corner of Harrison and Park streets in Cumberland. He died in 1904 at the age of sixty-three. He was widely known and highly esteemed for his charity and congeniality.
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