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Alexander Thomas Augusta (March 8, 1825 – December 21, 1890) was a surgeon, veteran of the American Civil War, and the first African-American professor of medicine in the United States. After gaining his medical education in Toronto, Canada West from 1850 to 1856, he set up a practice there. He returned to the United States shortly before the ...
The Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. In conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the hospital provides the Military Health System medical capabilities of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), a joint unit providing ...
Mary Lee Edward (1885–1980) — pioneer and surgeon and a hero during World War I on the front lines in France. Ted Eisenberg — Guinness World Record holder for most breast augmentation surgeries performed. Steven Eisenberg — known as "The Singing Cancer Doctor." Sextus Empiricus (2nd–3rd century C.E.) — philosopher; Ken Evoy
Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884–1924) – suffragist, volunteer nurse in World War I, and philanthropist; Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote
The new Civil War Trails site is one of three in Augusta County, one of the 550 across Virginia, and one of the 1,500 trails sites across six states, the release said.
The Sandy Creek Expedition, also known as the Sandy Expedition or the Big Sandy Expedition, [1] (not to be confused with the Big Sandy Expedition of 1861) was a 1756 campaign by Virginia Regiment soldiers and Cherokee warriors into modern-day West Virginia against the Shawnee, who were raiding the British colony of Virginia's frontier.
Anderson Abbott was born on 7 April 1837 in Toronto to Wilson Ruffin and Mary Ellen Toyer Abbott. His parents were Americans of African ancestry. The Abbotts were a prominent Black family in Toronto, who had left Alabama—as free people of colour [3] —after receiving a warning that their store was to be ransacked. [4]
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