Levi Jay Hammond, M.D.

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…

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Margaret Anna Pulver Smith

The Pulver family had three daughters when they were living in the town of Wayne, New York  in the Finger Lakes region. Margaret was the middle child of the three,…

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Emily G. Whitten Auge, M.D.

Alexander Whitten made a very good living selling liquor and his daughter, Emily, knew that. She also knew it was a time when the question of prohibition was taking root.…

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Ivey Foreman MacNair, M.D.

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…

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William Bentley Griggs, M.D.

William Bentley Griggs, M.D.

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. …

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Thomas Walker Tait, M.D.

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…

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John Henry Harres

Although the surname Harres is not of German origin, that’s the country John’s father, Gebhard, left to settle in Philadelphia and have nine children. John went to Central High School…

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