George Franklin Wilson was born on October 4, 1861, in Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama, the eldest of four children born to John Thomas and Martha Caroline (Moody) Wilson.  His father was a successful farmer and his mother was an 1858 graduate of the Judson Female Institute in Marion, Alabama.  He first studied medicine under his uncle Dr. H.F. Moody of Alabama for two years.  In 1885 Wilson began his studies at the Medical College of Alabama in Mobile.  On March 29, 1889 he graduated from the College during ceremonies held at Mobile’s Princess Theatre.  Following his graduation Wilson moved to Sparta, Louisiana, where he established a successful medical practice.  On December 26, 1889 he married Lorena Davis Mills.  George F. Wilson passed away on October 4, 1910 and was interred in the Campground Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

The collection includes eighteen lecture cards and two matriculation cards. Among the names signed to the cards are Drs. George A. Ketchum, T.S. Scales, Rhett Goode, W.H. Sanders, C. Toxey, J.F. Heustis, and Goronwy Owen.  The cards were given by the instructors upon the completion of specific courses in medicine and most date from the 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 sessions.

Donated in April 2002 to the UAB Archives by a couple living in Pueblo, Colorado.

Wilson, George F.,  d  1861-1910.
Medicine z Alabama x History.
Medical College of Alabama (Mobile, Ala.).

Admission tickets.

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Samuel V. McCall was born in 1908, the third and youngest child of Samuel J. McCall and Cora T. Ellis McCall.  By 1930 he was living with his parents and two older siblings in the City of Tuscaloosa.  McCall graduated from Atlanta-Southern Dental College in 1932. Atlanta-Southern Dental College was created from the merger of Atlanta Dental College and Southern Dental College in 1918.  In 1944, the college was incorporated into Emory University as the Emory School of Dentistry.  By 1938, Dr. McCall had returned to Tuscaloosa and established a general practice dental office; he practiced there until the 1970s.  He appears to have died in Tuscaloosa in 1978.

The collection includes lectures, diagrams, personal annotations, and illustrations from dental school classes.

Atlanta Southern Dental College (Atlanta, Ga.)
Dental schools  z  Georgia  z  Atlanta.
Dentistry  x  Study and teaching.
McCall, Samuel V.,  d  1908-1978.

Lecture notes.

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The Hillman Hospital Training School for Nurses graduated its first class on February 28, 1905.  By the end of 1944, the school had graduated 670 nurses.  In 1945 the Medical College of Alabama was moved from The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.  The Hillman and Jefferson hospitals had been transferred to the University's Board of Trustees in 1944 and formally merged as Jefferson-Hillman Hospital effective January 1, 1945.  As a result of this merger, the hospital-based nursing schools were also combined and renamed the Jefferson-Hillman Hospital School of Nursing.  For the next 10 years, the School operated, within the University's Birmingham Medical Center, as an educational department of the hospital.  In May of 1955 the nursing school was renamed the University Hospital School of Nursing when the hospital complex itself was renamed by the Board of Trustees.  The University of Alabama School of Nursing was moved from the Tuscaloosa campus to the Medical Center in Birmingham in 1967, and the announcement of the closure of the hospital-based nursing school was made.  The University Hospital School of Nursing graduated its last class in 1969 at which point the three-year nursing program was officially terminated.  According to the school's register, over 1,726 nurses had graduated from the program between 1905 and 1969.

Includes the original and two photocopies of the school ledger listing each graduate of the nursing school by class.

Hillman Hospital School of Nursing (Birmingham, Ala.).
Hillman Hospital Training School for Nurses (Birmingham, Ala.).
Nursing schools  z  Alabama  z  Birmingham.
University of Alabama.  b  Jefferson-Hillman Hospital School of Nursing.
University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Ledger

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