Barton Lisle Wright, M.D.
The father of Barton Wright was a Naval veteran of the Civil War and a native of Brooklyn, New York. Charles married a woman from Maryland in 1869 and Barton,…
Read MoreWalter Edmund Uffenheimer, D.D.S.
Born in his mother’s hometown of Boston, Walter was the second of three boys. Catharine married Louis Uffenheimer after his job brought him there from Philadelphia, where his father had…
Read MoreRobert J. McClatchey, M.D.
“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…
Read MoreWalter George Wilkins, M.D.
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…
Read MoreLevi 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…
Read MoreMargaret 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,…
Read MoreEmily G. Whitten Auge, M.D.
Alexander Whitten made a very good living selling liquor and his daughter, Emily, knew that. She also knew in the 1880s that the idea of prohibition was taking root. By…
Read MoreIvey 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…
Read MoreAnna Maria Stewart Dalrymple McCullough, M.D.
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…
Read MoreWilliam 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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