Dr. Joseph Mauran, son of Joseph Carlo and Olive (Bicknell) Mauran, was born in Barrington, 1796.
Young Mauran graduated at Brown in 1816, studied medicine with Dr. Pardon Bowen, attended medical lectures at Brown and finished his studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1819.
He became the associate of Dr. Bowen and assumed his practice at his death. For thirty- six years he devoted himself with great fidelity and zeal to the manifold duties of his profession and won the confidence and patronage of the Providence people.
He was a consulting physician of Butler Hospital for the Insane and a medical attendant at Dexter Asylum from their founding until his death. Twice he was chosen president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and he held many other offices of trust in medical organizations. To Dr. Mauran belongs the credit for the present State System of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and the office of Superintendent of Health of Providence.
He also took an active part in the founding of the Rhode Island Hospital, at Providence. Dr. Mauran ranks among the first if not the very highest of Rhode Island-born medical practitioners, investigators and organizers. Withal, he was a gentleman. His life enriched his profession. He died in 1873.