pg. 336 Amory Coffin, Aiken, S.C. son of Ebenezer Coffin, of Boston, and descendant of Tristram Coffin, was born on St. Helena Island, S.C., Dec. 25th, 1814. His education literary, classical, and medical was obtained at Charleston, New York, Gottingen, Berlin, Paris, clinic of Blockley hosp., and med. coll. of the State of South Carolina, graduating M.D. in 1838, and settling first in Charleston, and afterwards in Aiken, in general practice, but giving special attention to pulmonary diseases. He was formerly a member of the South Carolina State med. soc., and represented it as its delegate at the meeting of the Am. med. asso. held in Philadelphia, in 1855. His contributions to medical literature consist of various reviews and essays. pg. 237 W. H. Geddings, Aiken, S.C. was born in Charleston, S.C., April 23r, 1838. He is the son of Prof. E. Geddings, of that city. He studied medicine in the mid. coll. of the State of s.C., and in the univs. of Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and Paris, and graduated in March, 1861. He established himself in Charleston, but afterwards removed to New York, and finally, owing to the ill health of one of his family, settled in Aiken, in 1869. His specialty is climxology and pulmonary diseases. He is a member of the Am. med. asso.; of the med. asso. of S.C., and corres. member of the New York dermatological soc.; and has contributed various articles on the subjects of climate and dermatology, besides some reports on surgical cases to several medical journals. During the civil war he was chief medical purveyor of the army of Northern Virginia, of the Confederate States army. He married, July 1865, Adel Getty, daughter of A. Getty, Esq., of Philadelphia. |
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