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Ruth Jackson (December 13, 1902 – August 28, 1994) was the first female board-certified orthopedic surgeon in the United States and the first female admitted to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Algernon B. Jackson. Algernon Brashear Jackson (1878-1942) was a prominent African American physician, surgeon, writer, and columnist who contributed profoundly to the National Negro Health Movement, an organization which sought to uplift African Americans by educating them on preventative medicine and public health.
Carlton Fredericks, born Harold Frederick Caplan, (October 23, 1910 – July 28, 1987) was an American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition. Career [ edit ] He was born in Brooklyn, New York , and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1931 with a major in English and a minor in political science.
Ruth Cox was born in 1818 [2] : 133 to an enslaved woman named Ebby Cox, who was held on the plantation of John Leeds Kerr in Easton, Maryland, and a free black man. [3] Ruth worked as a nurse and a caretaker of children while she was enslaved. Accounts differ on whether Cox escaped slavery in 1842 or in 1844, following Kerr's death and the ...
By Manas Mishra and Zeba Siddiqui. (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a "substantial proportion" of Americans from its systems ...
Agnes Kane Callum (February 24, 1925 – July 22, 2015) was a genealogist known for her research into Maryland's African-American history. She was a founding member of the Baltimore Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, a frequent columnist for The Catholic Review, and the founding editor of a black genealogical journal, Flower of the Forest.
A.C. Jackson was an African American surgeon who was murdered during the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 and is known as the most prominent victim of the massacre. Jackson was a leading member of the Oklahoma medical community and the African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma until his death.
Monocacy was a village in Frederick County, Maryland that was located along an old Indian trail known as the Monocacy Trail that ran parallel to the Monocacy River. The trail was known as the Great Wagon Road by colonial travelers; it went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later was renamed Monocacy Road. Early surviving historical records ...
Arnold William Klein (February 27, 1945 – October 22, 2015) was an American dermatologist. [2] In the infancy of the AIDS epidemic, Klein became one of the first doctors in Los Angeles to diagnose a case of Kaposi's sarcoma in a young patient. [3] He also worked closely with American pop musician Michael Jackson, diagnosing him with discoid ...
Frederick is located in Frederick County in the northern part of the state of Maryland. The city has served as a major crossroads since colonial times. Today it is located at the junction of Interstate 70, Interstate 270, U.S. Route 340, U.S. Route 40, U.S. Route 40 Alternate and U.S. Route 15 (which runs north–south).