Hale Williams Contribution To The Medical Field

Dr. Kolecki graduated from Thomas Jefferson University in 1988. He started training as a Doctor for the next three years at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. Kolecki then spent the next three years training at Lankenau Hospital in the Cardiology Department in Bryn Mawr, Pa. In 1994 Kolecki started in private practice while being associated with St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem Pa.

Willie Hobbs, Moore was born in 1934, she was the very first African American woman to earn a PH.D in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1972, under the direction of Samuel Krimm. After she received her doctorate she continued research on specral proteins, while in Michigan Moore worked with Datamax Corp. Moore has also held positions in engineering in which she was responsible for theoretical

Born in New Jersey, Harold D. Almond fell in love with West Virginia when he attended college at West Virginia Wesleyan College. After he moved on to Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, and later joined the Army Air Force and was stationed in Japan. When he returned to Upshur County, West Virginia in 1949 he married his true love, Lois Flanagan and eventually had five children. In his book Stories of a West Virginia Doctor, Almond tells of the many house calls and hospital visits he made as a traveling doctor in the Buckhannon-Upshur area.

Anson was born on January 20, 1798 in Great Barrington Massachusetts. He was raised along with nine other siblings, seven of which were sisters. When he was only 19 years old, his mom passed away. Because of his mother’s death, he had to help his dad with work to support his family. Even while he was dealing with work, he still managed to go to a night school because he valued his education. He wanted to become a printer when he grew up, but his dad disagreed with his decisions. His father wanted him to study medicine and become a doctor. Because that didn't work out, he became a school teacher. This job helped him to pay for his own schooling. After this, he attempted to open a drugstore in New York, but he soon got arrested for not paying his debt in Philadelphia. When he got out of prison, he sailed to South America in 1824 to try to selling medicine again. Luckily, this time he was successful. Two years later, he sailed back to Philadelphia. He then got his medical degree one year later in 1827. In 1832, he moved to New Orleans. That’s when he lost everything he owned due to gambling.

At the age of 16, he got his first job at the local waste management company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had worked there until his death. He pushed for better stature such as pushing for African Americans to be

Scott W. Williams is an African American mathematician, born on April 22, 1941 in Staten Island, New York. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Williams came from a line of academics and political activists. Scott Williams is an only grandchild. His grandparents strongly valued Education. All of his aunts and uncles on both sides had Master's degrees after completing college.

After the death of one of the most prominent doctors in history, Dr. Dan Hale Williams, many expressed their thoughts and sorrow through a series of eulogies that were published in 1931 by the Chicago Defender. The publication was meant to recognize Dr. William’s accomplishments, to inform the African American society that had lost one of its most valued members, and also to inspire young African Americans to take down the barriers of discrimination. During the time period, African Americans faced a great deal of inequality in healthcare, which made the work of Dr. Williams even more significant as he was considered a pioneer in equality of healthcare between races.

Thomas Buchanan Read was born on March 12th, 1822 in Corner Ketch, Pennsylvania. Read only received an elementary school education and his father had a sudden death, which led Read to become an apprentice to a local tailor. The apprenticeship wasn’t so great either, it lead to a bad relationship containing abuse and cruelty. Luckily for Read the apprenticeship was very short lived. At the age of fifteen, Read started working in Philadelphia as a tobacconist and a grocer. Read also started to live in Cincinnati with his sister. In Cincinnati, Read took apprenticeship under Shobal Veil Clevenger. He learned to paint signs and learned sculpting through Clevenger.

Francis Hopkinson was born on October 2, 1737 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to parents Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Baldwin Johnson. He had eight siblings. When he was fourteen his mother struggled to take care of them after his father died. He started going to the College of Philadelphia in 1751. He became the first graduate from the college with a B.A. degree at the age of twenty. Three years later he got his master’s degree. He started practicing attorney at the age of twenty-four after studying with Benjamin Chew. Francis then studied for two years with the Bishop of Worcester.

In 1850 he and his family moved to Wisconsin where he lived for 5 years until his mother died. He moved with his father back to Freeport. While he was a young man he got $1,000 of inheritance money from his Grandfather and went to Michigan in an attempt to join the University of Michigan.

     It all started in a small town in Westmoreland county called West Overton. He was born in 1849 into a wealthy family not his parents but his grandfather had some money. His grandfather was Abraham Overholt, who was a wealthy rye whiskey distiller. As he was growing up his grandfather gave him a job as a bookkeeper. And that was the job that made him want to become a

This didn’t stop him from enjoying his life like a normal person because this injury didn’t stop him from being a teacher, a painter, a wood carver, or even being part of the Navy. His siblings also became artists as their teacher always brought products that had birds on them and asked the children to draw the birds.He was later drafted into the Navy so he could make models of training machinery since his leg was cut off to the knee at a younger age. Later on he was discharged due to his leg. During his education, his first school was Hampton but later after being discharged from the military he transferred to Pennsylvania State. He earned a bachelor's degree, a masters degree, and later a doctorate in education there. In 1948, he married Hazel Hales whom he was introduced from Hampton Institute. He traveled across Africa and wrote a book that contained narrative text and drawings of his travels. He then later received an Achievement award from the Metropolitan Arts Foundation. Years he became a major traveling exhibit. He was a distinguished professor as well until retirement in 1983 at

The story of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg has its humble beginnings, he grew up in Indiana where his parents were farmers. They taught their son T.J. to work hard and they instilled good morals. He was a quiet kid; some people speculate this was from his grandmother’s death when he was eight years old. Despite this excelled in school and became top of his class,in high school. He got a scholarship to Oxford, and decided to study optometry there. After his schooling, he went to New York and started his own business. He became very successful and quickly paid off his student debts. During his fourth year in business, he met his wife Mary Catharine, a successful seamstress. T.J. and Mary went on to have three children, each of the three were outstanding

Williams Syndrome is a genetic disorder that happens in the fetus stage and after birth. This syndrome is caused by the deletion of 26-28 genes in chromosome 7. Symptoms include facial deformities, trouble speaking, and the narrowing of the Aorta with many more symptoms.

A man by the name of John S. Pemberton, was a very respected member of the states medical establishment. He lived in Rome, Georgia for almost 30 years. While he went to school, he studied pharmacy and medicine at Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon. In 1850,