Thomas Pinckney Waring
Thomas Pinckney Waring | |
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| Born | February 28, 1867 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | January 8, 1943 (aged 75) Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
Resting place | Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | Yale Medical College |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse | Martha "Mattie" Gallaudet Backus (m. 1902–1943; his death) |
| Parent(s) | James Johnston Waring Mary Brewton Alston |
Thomas Pinckney Waring (February 28, 1867 – January 8, 1943) was an American physician, eminent in Savannah, Georgia, United States. He was described as "the most thoroughly trained and ablest physician and surgeons in Georgia".[1]
Early life
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Waring was born in 1867 in Savannah, Georgia, to James Johnston Waring, a physician, and Mary Brewton (or Broughton) Alston.[1] His siblings were Annie J. (born 1857), Mary B. (1859–1865), Pinckney Alston (1860), Helen (1862), James J. (1865) and Minna A. (1869).[2] The family lived at 3 West Perry Street in Chippewa Square.[3]
He graduated in 1889 from Yale Medical College,[4] as did his father[1] and nephew, Joseph Frederick Waring,[5] before studying at Columbia University in New York City. He graduated in 1892, after which he undertook two years as an intern at Bellevue Hospital and one year in Berlin.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1895, Waring set up a medical practice in Savannah.[1] He joined the Georgia Medical Society, and later became its president.[6] He was also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.[1]
He was head of the Oglethorpe Sanitarium in Savannah.[6] It has been established in 1907 by Dr. John W. Daniel and was located on East Duffy Street.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Waring became deputy governor general of the Society of the Colonial Wars.[6]
On Christmas Eve, 1902,[8] Waring married Martha "Mattie" Gallaudet Backus, granddaughter of Savannah historian Charles Seton Henry Hardee,[9] with whom he had three children between 1905 and 1916: daughters Alice and Mary, and son Thomas Jr.[1] Mattie was a pioneer in the kindergarten movement in Georgia.[10]
He was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite freemason and a member of Savannah's Oglethorpe Club.[1]
Death
[edit]Waring died in 1943, aged 75. He was interred in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. He was the oldest practicing member of the Georgia Medical Society at the time of his death.[6] His widow died later the same month and was buried beside him.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Knight, Lucian Lamar (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. Lewis publishing Company. p. 2782.
- ↑ Biographical Record. 1877. p. 78.
- ↑ "One house and a couple of confusing Waring names". Beehive Foundation. 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ↑ Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock (1899). Class of '89 Decennial. Jersey City Print. Company.
- ↑ of 1923, Yale University Class (1923). History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-three, Yale College. Class Secretaries Bureau.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - 1 2 3 4 The Macon Telegraph, January 9, 1943
- ↑ "Medical News". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. XLIX (22): 1850. 1907-11-30. doi:10.1001/jama.1907.02530220038013. ISSN 0098-7484.
- ↑ Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 855.
- ↑ "Who's Who". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 12 (4): 393–393. 1928. ISSN 0016-8297.
- ↑ Jr, The Estate of Walter J. Fraser (2018-03-08). Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-837-1.