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    • Dr. Solomon Sachwell

    • Dr. Solomon Sachwell

    • Sachwell family, physicians, medicine, typhoid fever

    • Dr. Solomon Sampson Satchwell (1821-1892), son of James and Elizabeth Windley Satchwell. He was married to Elizabeth Vanderveer of New Jersey; Ann Victoria Moore, daughter of Alfred L. Moore of New Hanover County; Sara Bell, daughter of Fletcher...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Solomon Satchwell

    • Dr. Solomon Satchwell

    • physicians, typhoid fever, Satchwell family

    • Dr. Solomon Sampson Satchwell (1821-1892), son of James and Elizabeth Windley Satchwell. He was married to Elizabeth Vanderveer of New Jersey; Ann Victoria Moore, daughter of Alfred L. Moore of New Hanover County; Sara Bell, daughter of Fletcher...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Charles Nesbitt

    • Dr. Charles Nesbitt

    • Nesbitt family, physicians, Neurologists, Public Health Officials, Housing projects, Nesbitt Courts, North Carolina Medical Society

    • Dr. Charles Torrence Nesbitt, (1870-1938), received his M.D. from Baltimore Medical College in 1903. He was Wilmington Superintendent of Health from 1911-1913, and in private practice as a Neurologist from 1907-1911 and 1923-1938. He advocated for...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Avon Hall Elliot

    • Dr. Avon Hall Elliot

    • 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. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • physicians, Board of Health, Botany

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1831-1892) received his medical education at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a botanist as well as a CSA soldier and surgeon. He is known as the father of the N.C. State Board of Health and was the editor and...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Charles Nesbitt

    • Dr. Charles Nesbitt

    • Nesbitt Family, physicians, Neurologists, Nesbitt Court, Public Health Officers

    • Dr. Charles Torrence Nesbitt (1870-1938) was educated at the Baltimore Medical College and received his M.D. in 1903. He was in private practice as a Neurologist from 1907-1911 and from 1923-1938. He served as the Wilmington Superintendent of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • Sidbury family, physicians, Babies Hospital, Dr. James Buren Sidbury

    • 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....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Billboards on Oleander

    • Billboards on Oleander

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, automobiles, cars, D. West jewelers, Dan's fan city, Shell Island oceanfront, Naegele, Rip-Lin book exchange, Captain D's seafood & hamburger, Putt-Putt, miniature golf courses, Cape Fear motors,...

    • Shows existing billboards, businesses and traffic at the corner of Oleander Dr. and 41st st.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • John C. Wessell House

    • John C. Wessell House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Owens House

    • Owens House
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    • 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. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cranmer House

    • Cranmer House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Joe Knox

    • Dr. Joe Knox

    • Knox family, physicians

    • 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...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Thomas Wood

    • Dr. Thomas Wood

    • Wood family, physicians, Medicine

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1831-1892), son of Robert B. and Mary A. Wood, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, February 23rd, 1831. He married Margaret Adelia Fuller, February 21st, 1866 in Lumberton, North Carolina. They had a son, Edward Jenner...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • J. C. Shepard, Druggist

    • J. C. Shepard, Druggist

    • Market Street, Shepard, Pharmacist, Druggist

    • 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."
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Frank Reynolds

    • Dr. Frank Reynolds

    • Reynolds family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Frank Russell Reynolds (1920-), son of Benjamin Bradford and Katharine Russell Reynolds, was born June 15th, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1941) and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his M.D....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Wood family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood, son of Thomas Fanning and Margaret Adelia Fuller Wood was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He received his M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania in 1902 and was a General Practioner. Notable achievements: N.C. Board of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Fourth Street - 0 block.

    • Fourth Street - 0 block.

    • St. James Episcopal Church, Cemetery, Graves, Fourth Street

    • On the left side is St. James Episcopal Church Graveyard, the site of a 1787 duel between Samuel Swann and John Bradley. Note that the street’s paving material is brick. Southwest corner of Fourth and Market streets. Located on the southwest...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Second Street, north - 100 block.

    • Second Street, north - 100 block.

    • N. Second Street, Post Office Park, Cap Fear Club, Chestnut Street

    • The photo was taken across Post Office Park and shows the northeast and southeast corners of north Second and Chestnut streets. The Cape Fear Club is in the center and across Chestnut Street is the home of Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1841-1892). Dr....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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