City: Sewanee
KIRBY-SMITH, Reynolds Marion, physician; born Nashville, Tenn., June 14, 1874; English descent; son of Edmund and Cassie (Selden) KIRBY-SMITH; father, soldier and educator; paternal grandparents Joseph Lee and Frances (Kirby) SMITH, maternal grandparents William and Caroline (Hare) SELDEN; graduated from University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., M. D., 1895, and Army Medical School, 1903; took post-graduate work in medicine in New York Surgeon Training Ship U. S. S. St. Mary, 1897; five years’ work with U. S. army in Philippines, one year (1901-1902) in Havana, Cuba, with Board of Health Yellow Fever Hospital; prof. material medica and therapeutics, and tropical medicine University of the South, 1907-1909; at present he is practicing medicine at Sewanee, Tenn., and health officer University of the South; married Maude Bethune TOMPKINS, June 24, 1903; Master Mason, Summit Lodge, Sewanee, Tenn., and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; Democrat; served as Capt., Asst. Surgeon 1st Tenn. Vol., April 1898, to Sept., 1899; contract surgeon U. S. A. Sept, 1899, to Jan,, 1901; 1st Lieut. Medical corps U. S. A., June, 1902, Capt. medical corps U S. A. to Dec. 17, 1906, when he resigned; member of Protestant Episcopal church.
