The medical colleges — Fort Wayne College of Medicine

1879 – 1905 (a first medical college ran 1876–1883)

Founded: Fort Wayne's first medical school, the Medical College of Fort Wayne, ran 1876–1883. The Fort Wayne College of Medicine was founded August 22, 1879, out of a faculty split over human dissection. Christian B. Stemen was its registrar and a professor, and its dean by 1885.

Course: In 1890 the college became Taylor University's medical department, on the National Park Service's account of the McCulloch House; Taylor-derived accounts instead say Fort Wayne College acquired the medical college's vacated facilities in 1890 — the two accounts differ on which institution absorbed which, and are carried as they stand. From 1892 to 1906 the college was housed in the Hugh McCulloch House at 616 W. Superior St. It belonged to the Association of American Medical Colleges and taught a course of four sessions of eight months.

Fate: In October 1905 faculty and students moved to Indianapolis and merged with the Medical College of Indiana and the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons to form the Indiana Medical College — Purdue's school of medicine — which became the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1908. Fort Wayne has had no medical school of its own since.

Sources:

1. Hadley, history of Indiana medical education, Indiana Magazine of History.
2. National Park Service, Hugh McCulloch House nomination — the 1879 founding; the 1890 Taylor affiliation; the house years, 1892–1906.
3. Indiana University Libraries, LibGuide to Indiana medical schools — the 1876–1883 college; the 1905 merger and 1908 succession.