English: Isaac Hulse Surgeon USN was born near Coram, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, on August 31, 1797. He graduated from the University Maryland Medical School where in 1821 he met and married Amelia Roberts . Dr. Hulse joined the United States Navy on May 12, 1823. His first assignment was that of Surgeon’s Mate aboard the U.S.S. Congress based in Norfolk, Virginia. His voyages aboard the USS Congress in the following year took him to Gibraltar, Cadiz, Rio de Janeiro, the West Indies and the west coast of Africa. Back in the United States in 1821 Dr. Hulse was assigned to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Virginia, where he remained for two years and was promoted to Surgeon. In 1826 Hulse was assigned to Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida. In August 1827 his wife Amelia died while on the return voyage from Pensacola to New York and was buried at sea. In contrast to his colleagues, Dr. Hulse often requested this most arduous and dangerous assignments. At Barrancas he rented two a story dwelling as a hospital and attempted to bring quality medical care to a hard pressed military community. On 10 January 1833 Hulse married Melania Innerarity, daughter of John Innerarity a wealthy planter and one of the largest slaveholders in the county. Hulse spent considerable time urging the construction of a new hospital (he was particularly keen to move the hospital and his patients from the tempting local grog shops) but because of military construction funding delays the Naval Hospital was not completed until December 1835. His monograph on "Yellow Fever" was published in the Maryland Medical and Surgical Journal, April 1842. In September 1847 Hulse tragically lost his seven year old daughter Mary Victoria to the dread disease. Surgeon Hulse served as commanding officer of the Pensacola Navy Hospital three times, spending 19 of his 33-year Navy career in northwest Florida before his death of tuberculosis on 29 August 1856. He is buried at Barrancas National Cemetery located on Naval Air Station Pensacola. Today Surgeon Hulse's Naval Hospital at Pensacola enjoys world renown and his reports provide valuable historic, demographic and medical information for historians of early Florida.