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THORNTON, Gustavus Brown<\/strong>, physician; born Bowling Green, Va., Feb. 22, 1835; English descent; son of James Bankhead and Marianna T. (Horner) THORNTON<\/strong>; fathers occupation, lawyer; paternal grandfather James Bankhead THORNTON<\/strong>, of Caroline Co., Va., maternal grandfather Dr. Gustavus Brown HORNER<\/strong> of Warrenton, Va.; educated in Memphis, Tenn., and Richmond, Va.; graduated from University of New York, M.D., 1860; chief surgeon C.S.A. with rank of Major, 1862-1865; married three times, first, Martha Louisa HULLUM<\/strong>, of Memphis Tenn., 1869, second Mrs. Gustavus A. HENRY<\/strong>, of Alabama, April 14, 1884, third, Mrs. Mary B. FOWLER<\/strong>, of Griffin, Ga., Jan. 24, 1906; Democrat; City Hospital physician, 1868-1877; president Memphis Board of Health, 1879-1889, resigned; reappointed in 1893 and held the office until Feb., 1898; member of Tenn. State Board of Health, 1881-1889; president Tenn. State Medical Assn., 1881-1882; president Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society, 1909-1910; founder of present City Hospital during the Clapp administration, and in charge of old hospital from 1868 to 1879; first recommended the city park system 1897; for a number of years was a member of American Public Health Assn., to which he contributed several papers; member of American Medical Assn.; author of various official reports and papers on hygeinic [sic]and medical subjects which bear upon and constitute important part of the sanitary history of Memphis; contributor of numerous articles to various medical journals; served as physician to yellow fever victims in Memphis, Tenn., throughout the yellow fever scourges of 1867, 1873, 1878 (in charge of City Hospital 1878 and 1879); remained at post of duty and was stricken with the plague in 1867, and was also seriously ill from exhaustion and overwork at close of epidemic, in Oct. 1878; elected president of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy at the United Confederate Veterans Reunion at Memphis, 1909; delivered an address of historic value before the Association of Medical Officers of the army and navy of the Confederacy, April 26, 1910, at Mobile, Ala.; he attested the high personal and professional character of the C.S. Army Surgeons; appointed by Dr. W.H. Welch, Pres. A.M.A., as one of the Confederate representatives from the A.M. Assn. on the committee to erect a National Monument at Washington, D.C., in commmoration [sic] of the Confederate and Federal medical officers of the civil war who were killed in battle; while in public office he was an earnest advocate of Federal government, assuming charge of maritime and interstate quarantine against yellow fever; local surgeon I.C.R.R., Southern R.R. and Union R.R.; engaged in private practice of medicine and surgery, Memphis, Tenn.; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church and Angerona Lodge F. & A.M.<\/p>\n Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis THORNTON, Gustavus Brown, physician; born Bowling Green, Va., Feb. 22, 1835; English descent; son of James Bankhead and Marianna T. 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