Medicine

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…

Loman and Lohman were spelling variations of the Lowman name that was used by Matthew’s father and grandfather. Less common names for Matthew were M. Frank, Frank, M.F. and his…

Janet was sometimes called Jennie in her childhood. Her mother’s name was listed as Jennie on some documents although her legal name may have been Jane or Jannette. Janet had…

To his colleagues and friends he was known as Fred but to his parents he was Detlef Marius Ferdinand Krogh. They were from Denmark but he and an older brother…

The modern title of “medical doctor” applies to one who is academically trained and credentialed to practice medicine. In years past it was often used to describe any person who…