pg. 396-397 John Lawrence Ancrum, Charleston, S.C., son of Col. William Washington Ancrum, and grandson of Gen. William Washington, of the revolution, was born in Charleston, S.C., March 14th, 1838. He was educated at the Charleston high school, graduated A.B. from the Charleston coll. in 1869, and A.M. in 1869 and M.D. from the S.C. med. coll. in March 1860 and settled in Charleston. He is a ember of the S.C. med. soc., and ex-treasurer and member of the board of trustees of Roper hosp., having been elected to the former in 1860, and to the latter in 1871; also a member and one of the vice-presidents of the S.C. med. asso. He has contributed to the.....During the war he was surgeon on board the "Nashville," confederate States navy, and also surgeon in Johnston's command; afterward under Breckenridge, in Morgan's brigade, Confederate States army. pg. 324 Robert Little Brodie, is a native of Charleston, S.C. He was educated at Charleston coll., graduated 1848. Attended lectures at the S.C. med. coll., graduated 1851. Served as senior asst. and house phys. Bellevue hosp. in 1851 and 1852. Appointed asst. surg. in U.S. army in 1854. Appointed surg. and med. direc. Confederate States army in 1861. Is a general practitioner in Charleston, and member of the State med. asso. pg. 275 John Somers Buist, Charleston, S.C. of Scotch-French descent, son of George Buist, and a grandson of the Rev. George Buist, D.D., was born in Charleston, S.C., Nov 20th, 1839. Graduating third honor from the Charleston coll. in March, 1859, he entered the S.C. med. coll. graduating thence M.D., first honors, in March 1861. In the latter year he entered the Confederate army as an asst. surg.; served in this capacity for two years; in 1863 was commissioned as a surg., with the rank of major, and served as such during the balance of the war. In 1865 he established himself in private practice in Charleston, making a specialty of surgery. Among his more notable operations was the removal of the upper jaw of a child nine years of age, reported in Transactions of med. soc. of S.C. He materially aided in the organization of the health dept. now (1877) in operation in Charleston, and in 1871 was mainly instrumental in the reorganization of the Charleston hospitals. He is a ember of the med. soc. of S.C.; of the S.C. med. asso., having served as chairman of the committee appointed, after the war, for the reorganization of the latter, and has been three years it recording secretary, and since 1874 its corres. secretary. From 1870 to 1873 he was asst. prof. of mat. med. in the S.C. med. coll., and is at present a chn. lecturer at the Charleston city hosp. during the sessions of the S.C. med. coll. He is phys-in-chief to the city and Roper hosps; phys to the U.S. marine hosp; was phys to the State orphan asylum, and temporary phys to the Ursuline convent. Among his professional publications.....He married, Feb. 21st, 1867, Margaret S., daughter of A. S. Johnston, Esq., of Charleston. pg. 620-621 Maynard Edward Carrere, Charleston, S.C., was born in that city May 18th, 1813. He is the son of Charles Carrere, a native of Tarbes, France, and a coffee planter of St. Domingo, and Eliza Frances Rugge, of London. He was educated at the Charleston classical seminary, and graduated in medicine from the univ. of Pa. in 1837, entering upon the practice in his native city. Among his more important cases two are especially notable....He is a member of the med. soc. of the State of S.C., of the med. asso. of the State of S.C., and of various charitable societies. During the civil war he was a volunteer surgeon in the Confederate hosp. at Charleston. He married, first, Mary Wilkinson Legare, daughter of S. Legare, a planter of John's island, S.C.,; secondly, Susan Theus, daughter of Major Simeon Theus, of Charleston, S.C.; and thirdly, Elizabeth Calhoun Jones, daughter of Dr. R. H. Jones, of Ashepoo, S.C. pg. 204 Henry DeSaussure Fraser, Charleston, S.C., was born, April 4th, 1828, in Charleston, his ancestors being French Huguenots and Scotch. His academical education was supplemented by courses of instruction in the S.C. coll., and the med. coll. of the State of S.C. Receiving the degree of M.D. in March 1851, he shortly after visited Europe, where he spent the major portion of the two succeeding years in attending medical lectures. Returning in the latter part of 1852, he commenced the practice of his profession in his native city, and with the exception of the time spent in army service, has ever since remained there. He is a member of the med. soc. of S.C. and of the S.C. med. asso., and in 1873 was elected its secretary. Entering the army of south Carolina as an asst. surg. in 1861 he was in the following year commissioned surgeon in the Confederate States army, and subsequently served as surgeon in charge of the 3d army corps field hospital, army of northern Virginia, until the close of the war. At the battle of Gettysburg he was taken prisoner of war, and held for five months. He was married in 1859 to Jane F., daughter of Jas. II Ladson, of Charleston, S.C., and is the father of two surviving daughters. pg. 360 John Frederic Meckel Geddings, Charleston, S.C., son of Eli Geddings, M.D., and Mary (Wyatt) Geddings, of English and Franco-Irish extraction, was born in Charleston, S.C., Sept. 14th, 1829. His classical and mathematical education was obtained at a private school, and his medical education at the med. coll. of the State of south Carolina; at Frederick-William univ., Berlin, Prussia; in Paris and in Vienna, graduating at the first named institution M.D., 1849. He settled in Charleston in 1852 in general practice. He is a member of the med. soc. of South Carolina, has been its vice-president, and is its president; of the South Carolina med. asso., is its president; and has been vice-president, and is corresponding secretary of the Elliott soc. of natural history, of Charleston, S.C. His contributions to medical literature consist of.....He has held the position of prof. of the institutes and pracice of medicine in the med. coll. of the State of S.C. He was surg. of the provisional army of the Confederate States in 1862; in charge of post hosp., Adams Run, S.C., same year; senior surg. of brigade and med. inspector, and chief surg. of division for second military district in 1863; and surg. in charge of third Georgia hosp., Augusta, Ga., in 1864. In Jan. 1856, he married Henrietta, daughter of the late Prof. Henry R. Frost, M.D., of the med. coll. of the State of S.C. pg. 417 Edward Henry Kellers, Charleston, S.C., was born in Charleston, March 10th, 1836. He graduated at the S.C. coll. in 1856, and at the med. coll. of the State of s.c., March 1st, 1858, settling in his native city, where he still resides. He is a general practitioner, and since the war has combined the business of a druggist with his practice. He is a member of the med. asso. of S.C., and of the pharmaceutical soc. of S.C.; and is one of the board of pharmaceutical examiners for the city of Charleston. He produced a monograph on.....In 1869 he was elected a city phys. of Charleston. He served as asst. surg. in the Confederate army. pg. 557 Robert Alexander Kinloch, Charleston, S.C., of Scoth and Welsh descent, was born in that city, Feb. 20th, 1826. He is a graduate of Charleston coll, and after attending the med. coll. of the State of s.C., graduated from the med. dept. of the univ. of Pa. in 1848; and spent nearly two years abroad in Paris, London and Edinburgh. He has since his return in 1855 resided in his native city. He was the first surg. of the Roper hosp. in Charleston; was formerly prof. of mat. med. and therap., and is now prof. of surg. in the med. coll. of the State of S.C.; made the first re-section of the knee-joint for chronic disease in the United States; has invented an improved urethrotome and stricture dilator; also an intrauterine stone pessar. He is a member of the med. soc. of S.C., of which he was at one time president; of the med. asso. of the State of S.C.; and of the Am. med. asso.; is an associate fellow of the Philadelphia coll. of phys.; and was delegate to the International med. congress of 1876. He has contributed numerous reviews.....He was a surgeon in the Confederate army, serving as med. director in the dept. of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; as med. inspector of hosps.; and as a member of the army examining boards at Richmond and at Charleston. He married Elizabeth Caldwell, of Fairfield, South Carolina, and has nine children. pg. 500 States Lee Lockwood, Charleston, S.C., of English ancestry, son of Joshua Lockwood and Caroline (D. L. Lee) Lockwood, was born in Charleston, S.C., July 10th, 1823. In 1845 he graduated from the college at Charleston, and in 1848 from the med. coll. of s.C., and has practiced in Charleston since graduating. His practice is general; he has a special interest in obstetrical practice, and has attended over fifteen hundred cases of labor. He is a member of the med. soc. of S.C.; the S.C. State med. asso., and has been secretary of the latter, and secretary, treasurer, and librarian of the former. Before the war he was phys. to U.S. prisoners in Charleston jail, and was surgeon-in-charge of the Africans during their stay at Forts Pinckney and Sumter. During the war was surgeon in attendance at a local Confederate hospital, and for several years in charge of laborers in the fortifications surrounding. In 1855 he married Anna M. Lockwood, who died in 1865. In 1867 he married Sophia A. Lockwood. They were daughters of Thomas Perkins Lockwood, Esq., of Charleston, S.C. pg. 511 Walter Hunn Nardin, Anderson, S.C. born in Charleston S.C., Oct. 24th, 1837, graduated from the med. dept. of the univ. of the city of New York in March, 1860, and settled at Anderson. He has performed various important surgical operations, among them being the successful removal of a stone weighing 7 1/2 ounces in a case of lateral lithotomy. He is president of the Anderson co. med. soc., and has been since 1873 and was first vice-president of the S.C. State med. soc. for the year 1874. He was asst. surg. in the provisional army of the Confederate States for two and a half years. He married in October, 1860. pg. 332 Francis LeJan Parker, Charleston, S.C., was born in Abbeville, S.C., Sept. 22d, 1836. He received his education in the S.C. State military acad., and pursued his medical studies in the med. coll. of the State of South Carolina, from which he graduated in March 1858, settling in Charleston. While his practice is general he has given attention more particularly to diseases of the eye and to surgery. He was appointed, in 1859, asst. demonstrator in the med. coll. above named, and demonstrator in 1866; also prof. of anat. in 1870 which position he still occupies. He is a member of the S.C. med. asso. and of the med. soc. of the same State. He has published a number of articles in the medical journals, some among them being....During the civil war he was asst. surg. in charge of Manchester hosp. Va., afterwards surg. of Hampden's legion and chief surg. of Fields division, Longstreet's corps of Confederate States army. pg. 58 Peyre Francis Porcher, Charleston, S.C., was born Dec. 14th, 1824, at St. John's, Berkely co., S.C. He is a descendant of a Huguenot family, who came from France in 1696. His early education was obtained at the South Carolina coll., Columbia, from which he graduated A.B., and his medical education at the med. coll. of the State of S.C., graduating from this institution M.D., in 1847, and settling in Charleston. He is prof. of mat. med. and therapeutics, and of clinical med. in med. coll. of State of S.C., corres. member of the acad. of nat. sciences of Philadelphia, and fellow of the coll. of phys. of the same city; author of.......He is phys. to the Charleston city hosp; ex-president of S.C. med. asso., and during the war was surg. in charge of the Confederate hosps. at Norfolk and Petersburg. He married, in 1855, Virginia, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Watkins Leigh and Julia Wickham, of Richmond, Va., and, in second marriage, the daughter of the late Col. I. I. Ward, of Waccamaw, S.C. pg. 431 Jacob Ford Prioleau, Charleston, S.C., of Italian and Huguenot ancestry, son of Prof. Thomas G. Priolean, M.D., and Mary H. (Ford) Prioleau, was born in Charleston, April 30th, 1826. He was educated in private schools, and at the Charleston coll., receiving his A.B. in 1845, and A.M., 1848, and studied medicine in Charleston, Philadelphia and New York, and graduated M.D. at the med. coll. of the State of s.C. in 1847. He settled first near Stockton, Cal., in 1849 but returned to Charleston in 1851. His practice is general, but his specialty, if any, is gynecology, although in surgery he has successfully performed many of the capital operations. He is a member of the Am. med. asso.; of the S.C. med. asso., its vice-president in 1873; and of the med. soc. of S., its vice-president in 1869 and president in 1871 and 1872. His few contributions to medical literature are.....He was a lecturer at the Charleston med. institution in 1851 upon diseases of women and children, which he resigned in 1856; elected prof. of obstetrics in the med. coll. of S.C. in 1871 and to the chair of genacology in the same institution in 1872 and ex-officio consulting obstetrician and gynecologist to the Charleston city hosp. He was surg. in the provisional army of the Confederate States, attached to the 12th reg. S.C. infantry, a portion of Stonewall Jackson's corps; also in 1863 surg. in charge of hosp. No. 2 at Columbia; surg. detailed to take charge of yellow fever hosp. in Charleston in 1863; in charge of Pikeville hosp. in 1865, and of the Chester, S.C. hosp. till late in 1865. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Huger, daughter of Col. Edward Harleston, of Charleston, S.C. pg. 177 Grange Thomas Simons, Charleston, S.C., was born in Charleston, May 10th, 1843. His father, T. Grange Simons, and mother, Mary Ann (Bentham) Simons, were of French-Huguenot ancestry, who settled in S.C. after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He was educated in Charleston coll. and at the med. coll. of S.C. graduating M.D. at this institution in March, 1867, and commencing professional life in Charleston. He is a member of the med. soc. of S.C., and of the soc. for the relief of the widows and orphans of deceased members of the med. profession; also of the State med. asso., of which he was secretary from 1871 to 1875 and is now its treasurer. He is the author of a report on a case of......He was one of the city phys., and phys. to Charleston city hosp. from 1871 to 1875; asst demons, in anat. from 1872 and 1873 in med. coll. of S.C.; and phys. to the dispensary. During the war he served as non-commissioned officer to the Washington light infantry, 25th S.C. vols.; was wounded at Secessionville in 1862, and was captured and paroled by Sherman in 1865. pg. 169 Manning Simons, S.C. son of the Hon. James and Sarah (Lowndes) Simons, and grandson of James Simons, a major in the cavalry troop commanded by Col. Wm. Washington during the revolutionary war, was born in Charleston, May 6th, 1846. Graduating from the Charleston coll. in 18??, he entered the med. coll. of the State of S.C., and from that institution received in March, 1868, his degree of M.D. establishing himself in the same year in practice in Charleston. He is a member of the med. soc. of S.C., elected secretary in 1869 and served five years; of the S.C. State med. asso.; and of the Am. med. asso. Among his published writings.....He was phys. to the first health district of Charleston; is now demonstrator of anst. in the med. coll. of the State of S.C. During the late war he served for one year as a private in the Confederate States army. pg. 82 Edward George Trescot, Greenville, S.C., was born in Charleston, S.C., Dec. 30th, 1833. His parents were Henry and Sarah Trescot, whose ancestors have resided in South Carolina for 150 years. He was educated at Charleston coll., and in the med. coll. of the State of South Carolina, graduating in 1856, and establishing himself first in Charleston, but finally settling in Greenville in 1873. He is a ember of the med. soc. of S.C. and of the S.C. med. asso.-recording secretary of the latter in in 1858 and 1859. He has contributed some articles to the......He was house phys. in the Roper hosp; quarantine master and phys. of the lazaretto, at Charleston, respectively, in 1856, 1857, 1858; Prof. of mat. med. and therap. in the med. coll. of the State of South Carolina, and dean of the faculty from 1869 to 1873. During the war he was attached to Lane's N.C. brigade, Confederate States army, as surgeon.

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