First Dental College
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First Dental College Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first Dental College in the world, chartered by the General Assembly of Maryland March 6, 1840. Founders were Horace H. Hayden, M.D., D.D.S., and Chapin A. Harris, M.D., D.D.S. The Assembly stipulated by Act of Consolidation April 9, 1924 that the name of the college "shall be preserved as a definite Department of the University of Maryland.
" The name adopted "Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland." Tablet in Hopkins Plaza, six blocks east, marks original site of the College. The Alumni Association
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