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James Moultrie, Jr. was born in Charleston in 1793 and received his education in London before completing his studies at South Carolina College in Columbia. He graduated in 1812 from the University of Pennsylvania, before serving as a surgeon to a military hospital in Hampstead (now the East Side). The following year, he was appointed by the governor to succeed his father as the Physician of the Port of Charleston.

Moultrie joined the Medical Society of South Carolina on July 1, 1812. He was elected the society’s president in 1820 and reelected in 1821. He, like Dickson, was greatly moved by Thomas Cooper’s appeal for a medical school in South Carolina. Unlike Cooper, however, Moultrie believed that the school would be best situated in Charleston, rather than Columbia. Moultrie is credited with having written the circular that was presented to the South Carolina General Assembly in 1823 that ultimately secured the school’s charter.

Although instrumental in the planning and opening of the Medical College in 1824, Moultrie ultimately turned down any nominations to the faculty, citing the lack of a permanent building, specimens for anatomical study, and a library. In fact, he did not take a seat on the faculty until 1833, when a Professorship of Physiology was created for him at the newly organized Medical College of the State of South Carolina. Moultrie taught there until 1867, and served as dean for the 1835-1836 academic year, again from 1840 to 1841, and finally from 1847 to 1850. When Moultrie stepped down as dean in 1850, his personal property, including enslaved persons, totaled $25,000.

Moultrie served as honorary president of the Medical Society of Emulation and, in 1827, he helped launch its

He served as South Carolina’s representative at the organization of the American Medical Association in 1847 and was elected its first vice president; he was elected president three years later. He also organized the South Carolina Medical Association in 1848 and served as its first president until 1852. Moultrie was also a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, the Natural History Society, and the South Carolina Historical Society.

James Moultrie, Jr. died on May 29, 1869, and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.

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(Image Description: Lecture ticket for the Medical College of the State of South Carolina for Physiology. Waring Historical Library, Manuscript Collection, MSS 47.)