Town: Columbia<\/p>\n
PORTER, Otey James<\/strong>, physician; born Williamsport, Tenn., Sept. 11, 1867; English-Irish descent; son of William T. and Mary J. (Russell) PORTER<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer and merchant; paternal grandparents, S. S. and Catharine (Todd) PORTER<\/strong>, maternal grandparents M. M. and Rachel (Jones) RUSSELL<\/strong>; received common school education; graduated University of Nashville (Tenn.) Medical department, with degree of M. D. in 1890; was valedictorian and faculty medalist of class 1890; in early life was a farmer and school teacher; married first Elizabeth BOWEN<\/strong> in1896, married second Mrs. Annie Mayes Bowen<\/strong> in 1904; member of K. of P., Century Club, American Medical Association, State Medical Society; health officer Columbia, Tenn., 1900-1904; successfully exposed fraudulent claims of \u201cMrs. Abbott\u201d famous \u201cGeorgia Wonder,\u201d in 1890; waged a successful fight to establish smallpox diagnosis of the atypical smallpox epidemic in the United States 1900-1902; independent in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Town: Columbia PORTER, Otey James, physician; born Williamsport, Tenn., Sept. 11, 1867; English-Irish descent; son of William T. and Mary J. (Russell) PORTER; father\u2019s occupation, farmer and merchant; paternal grandparents, S. S. and Catharine (Todd) PORTER, maternal grandparents M. M. and Rachel (Jones) RUSSELL; received common school education; graduated University of Nashville (Tenn.) Medical department, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,116,85,4419],"tags":[952,263,201,612,951],"class_list":{"0":"post-1902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-maury","7":"category-medical-department-university-of-tennessee-nashville","8":"category-surname-p","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bowen","11":"tag-jones","12":"tag-porter","13":"tag-russell","14":"tag-todd","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15808,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/15808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}