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John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913) was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon [1] who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army.
John Billings was born in Melbourne and was educated at Xavier College, and at the University of Melbourne where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. [1]In 1953, he began work on a method of natural family planning, involving observation of several indicators of fertility and infertility, gradually focusing on the changes to cervical mucus patterns of sensation.
Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life, George M. Smith & Co., 1887, digitized by Digital Scanning Institute, 2001, ISBN 1-58218-628-6, Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: or The Unwritten Story of Army Life Free ebook at Archive.org; Hardtack and Coffee public domain audiobook at LibriVox
John Billings may refer to: John Billings (Australian physician) (1918–2007), family planning pioneer; John Shaw Billings (1838–1913), American librarian, building designer, and surgeon; John Shaw Billings (editor) (1891–1975), his grandson, first editor of Life magazine
Billings descended from U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond (1807–1864). His grandfather (also John Shaw Billings) was an Army medical doctor during the Civil War.After the war, he established an Army medical library with the first modern bibliographical system for medical knowledge.
If he's not airborne, there's a good chance you will find 97-year-old John Billings at his home airport in Luray, Virginia. A lifetime of flying, going back to his days as a 21-year-old bomber ...
Since 2005, WWII veteran John Billings, 98, has flown 459 Angel Flights. On Nov. 20, he is retiring from Angel Flights due to health issues. World War II veteran, Scituate native John Billings ...
The American Humorists, (from left), Josh Billings, Mark Twain and Petroleum V. Nasby Shaw was born in Lanesborough, Massachusetts on April 21, 1818. His father was Henry Shaw, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821, [8] [9] and his grandfather Samuel Shaw who also served in the U.S. Congress from 1808 to 1813.