John Farrell Easmon (seated) and his brother Albert Whiggs Easmon
Current region
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Place of origin
United States
Founded
Arrival in Sierra Leone
11 March 1792 (1792-03-11), Freetown
232 years ago
Founder
William Easmon
Members
John Farrell Easmon
Albert Whiggs Easmon
Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon
Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango
Raymond Sarif Easmon
Charles Syrett Farrell Easmon
Charles Odamtten Easmon
Connected members
Edward Mayfield Boyle
Edna Elliott-Horton
Distinctions
activism
education
medicine
natural sciences
politics
public health
the arts
The Easmon family or the Easmon Medical Dynasty is a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent originally based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Easmon family has ancestral roots in the United States, and in particular Savannah, Georgia and other states in the American South. There are several descendants of the Sierra Leonean family in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as in the Ghanaian cities of Accra and Kumasi. The family produced several medical doctors beginning with John Farrell Easmon, the medical doctor who coined the term Blackwater fever and wrote the first clinical diagnosis of the disease linking it to malaria and Albert Whiggs Easmon, who was a leading gynaecologist in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Several members of the family were active in business, academia, politics, the arts including music, cultural dance, playwriting and literature, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and anti-colonial activism against racism.
The Easmon family was among the wealthy, upper-class and aristocratic Creole families, known locally as the Aristos and descended from one of the original black American founding families which established the Colony of Sierra Leone in 1792.
The Easmonfamily or the Easmon Medical Dynasty is a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent originally based in Freetown, Sierra...
Easmon is a patronymic surname of English origin and is a variation of the surname Eastman. The surname is typically ascribed to a notable medical dynasty...
Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, FRCSEd, FICS, FGA, FWACS, GM (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a medical...
fictitious Eastbridge Estate in East London. The series follows the Easmonfamily; Walter (Elba), his wife Agnes (Madeline Appiah) and their 13-year-old...
Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon, OBE, popularly known as M. C. F. Easmon or "Charlie" (11 April 1890 – 2 May 1972), was a Sierra Leone Creole born in...
and malaria. Easmon coined the term "blackwater fever" in his pamphlet on the malarial disease. A member of the prominent Easmonfamily medical dynasty...
Simango was also a member of the prominent Sierra Leone Creole Easmonfamily. Kathleen Mary Easmon was born on 9 August 1891 as the younger of two children...
education in Britain. He is a descendant of the distinguished Easmonfamily. Charles Easmon attended Epsom College and qualified with an M.B.B.S, M.R.C...
Raymond Sarif Easmon was born on 15 January 1913 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, to the Easmonfamily, a prominent Creole medical family of African-American...
Albert Whiggs Easmon (1865 – 21 May 1921) was a Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor and the half-brother of Dr John Farrell Easmon. Easmon was among the...
composer, journalist and writer Awoonor-Renner family Davis familyEasmonfamily Smith family Snowball family Edward Wilmot Blyden III (1918–2010), diplomat...
Washington (c. 1740–1800), slave of U.S. President George Washington Easmonfamily, prominent Creole medical dynasty Noah Arthur Cox-George (1915–2004)...
Ahovi E. F. Kponou; Ngadi W. Kponou. "KATHLEEN MARY EASMON SIMANGO….. Reflections". EasmonFamily History. Retrieved 21 December 2022. Morier-Genoud,...
Charles Boyle and Sarah Easmon, both of whom were of African-American descent. Sarah Easmon was a member of the Easmonfamily. Boyle was a maternal nephew...
relatives also include a branch of the Easmonfamily of Sierra Leone, descended from Dr. John Farrell Easmon, the discoverer of Blackwater fever. [citation...
period include the Baëta, Bartels, Brew, Casely-Hayford, Easmon, Gbeho and Ofori-Atta families. In the broader context, this era of creative ferment, marked...
Ahovi E. F. Kponou; Ngadi W. Kponou. "KATHLEEN MARY EASMON SIMANGO….. Reflections". EasmonFamily History. Retrieved 6 August 2017. Adell Patton, Physicians...
Creole physician John Farrell Easmon in his 1884 pamphlet entitled The Nature and Treatment of Blackwater Fever. Easmon coined the name "blackwater fever"...
appeared as Koji in the first series of the sitcom Kate & Koji, Valentine Easmon in In the Long Run, and Geoffrey Thompson in Bel-Air. Jimmy Akingbola was...
Football Awards 2017 Television special 2018–2020 In the Long Run Walter Easmon 19 episodes; also creator 2018 The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018 Himself...
include Sylvia Blyden, a newspaper proprietor and Creoles such as Macormack Easmon, Edna Elliott-Horton, and George T.O. Robinson, the founder of the Krio...
contralto Frances Hermia Durham (1873–1948), civil servant Kathleen Mary Easmon Simango (1892-1924), Sierra Leonean missionary and artist Professor Beatrice...
specialist and psychiatrist Matilda J. Clerk, physician Charles Odamtten Easmon, surgeon Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, physician and academic Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng...
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