WASHINGTON, Benjamin Emerson (1883-1961)
Dr. Benjamin Emerson Washington was Blount County’s first African-American physician. A graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, he practiced there his entire life – serving the Oldfield Community in Alcoa Hall. He was born in 1883 in Natchez, Mississippi and married wife Lula in 1918 in McMinnville, Warren