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- William G. Stafford (1850-1918, Burlington, NC)
STAFFORD, William Gaston, Burlington, N.C., son of William and Malinda (Albright) Stafford, grandson of George Stafford, was born January 14, 1850, in Alamance county, N.C. The Civil War interfered very seriously with his early education, but in the intervals of work on the farm he improved to the best of his ability the scanty opportunities for education, and attended Sylvan Academy (a Quaker school), Chatham county, and Graham High School, Graham, N.C. He began the study of medicine in 1876, under Dr. Durant H. Albright, in Alamance county, and entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, the same year, attending one course of lectures.
In 1877 he began to practise [sic] medicine at Oaks, N.C. A little later, the state medical board being established, he passed the required examination with success. In 1887, he moved to Burlington, N.C. In 1890, he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and was graduated in 1891. He is a member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; and of the Alamance County Medical Association. He has devised a derrick to elevate patients from the bed, particularly useful in fracture of the femur, and has also compiled a book on "Surgical Laconics," not yet published.
Married, first, in 1877, Miss Emma Leonette Stroud, of Orange county, N.C., who died in 1889, leaving one son, William Faris Stafford. Married, second, in 1891, Miss Lily Montgomery, of Atlanta, Ga.
Transcribed from:
Physicians and Surgeons of America: A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson. Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1896.
Census:
- Listed as W. Gaston Stafford, a physician, with wife, daughter and son (listed as other) and a cousin A. Gales Strowd age 30 b. NC. Parents born in NC.
- 1910. Listed as W. G. Stafford, a medical doctor, with wife Lillie M.
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1850 - 1918 (68 years)
