Medicine

“Healing the sick” was sometimes more luck than science in the mid-19th century. Robert grew up in a time and place where an alternative to “traditional” medicine known as homeopathy…

The story of Walter’s childhood is blank, except that he was born in New York to parents of English descent, but whether it refers to the city of New York…

Jay was his commonly used name, born on Kent Island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay just east of Annapolis, Maryland. The family moved to Dover and then to…

The MacNair ancestral line links to the Harvey family, well-to-do North Carolinians that arrived in 1663 along the Albemarle Sound in the northeastern corner of the colony. From that line…

There’s very little to say about Anna’s medical career, primarily because she had a late start after her first career as a wife and mother. However, through her family and…

Like his father, William Orlando Griggs, Bill was a physician, but his specialty was pediatrics, children’s healthcare. Perhaps that’s what made him so young at heart, even into his nineties. …

Archie was named after his grandfather who was also a physician. That man’s wife was the granddaughter of Colonel John Beatty who was taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. He…

Among the several unrelated Tait families interred at Mount Moriah there are a number of doctors. This story centers on one particular family with two ophthalmologists, trained to treat diseases…