Thomas Pinckney Waring
Thomas Pinckney Waring | |
|---|---|
| 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
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
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
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
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
- 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.