Prairie style house built for John Charles Wessell (1877-1960), physician and surgeon; and wife, Isabelle Struthers (1883-1962), native of Columbus County. The New Hanover County tuberculosis hospital was named in his honor for his long service in...
Craftsman style bungalow built for Charles W. Owens (1895-1968), civil engineer; and wife, Dollie Braxton (1899-1991). Purchased in 1938 by Robert P. Huffman, veterinarian and County Health Department food and dairy inspector for thirty years. ...
Prairie style house built for John B. Cranmer, M.D. (1874-1954), native of Southport; and wife, May Webb (1871-1958), native of Bertie County, NC. He was a physician, and president of the New Hanover Board of Health and the New Hanover Medical...
Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood
A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street.
Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
Elliot family, Physicians, hospitals, James Walker Memorial Hospital
Dr. Avon Hall Elliot, (1890-), was born in Manchester, N.C., September 29th, 1890. His parents were Johnathan Evans and Alice Hall Elliot. He married Miss Myrtle Elaine Vandegrift. His brother, George Douglas Elliot, was also a Medical Doctor...
Dr. Joseph Clyde Knox (1897-), son of Joseph John and Minnie Drew Knox, was born in Brunsick County, North Carolina, October 9th, 1897. He married Martha Cox, and received his education from Trinity College (1920) and from The University of...
Koseruba family, Sidbury family, physicians, medicine, Rayle family
Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Jr., son of James Buren, Sr. and Willie Daniel Sidbury, was born January 13th, 1922, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father James and sister, Rowena S. Hall Lenart, were also Physicians (Pediatrics). He married Ms....
Not to be confused with Joseph C. Shepard, the Civil War Assistant Surgeon who served as Superintendent of Health (and died in 1903), this receipt, dated Dec. 1, 1905, is for J. C. Shepard, "Wholesale and Retail Druggist."