William Gaston Bulloch
William Gaston Bulloch | |
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| Born | August 4, 1815 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | June 23, 1885 (aged 69) Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse | Mary Eliza Lewis (m. 1851–1885; his death) |
William Gaston Bulloch (August 4, 1815 – June 23, 1885) was an American physician. He was eminent in Savannah, Georgia.
Life and career
Bulloch was born in 1815 in Savannah, Georgia, to John Irvine Bulloch and Charlotte Glen,[1] daughter of John Glen, the first Chief Justice of Georgia.[2] His siblings were James and Jane. He was a descendant of politician Archibald Bulloch and fellow physician Noble Wimberley Jones.[3]
He graduated Yale College in 1835 and the University of Pennsylvania three years later. He studied for his medical education in Paris for nearly two years, before setting out as a physician in Savannah in 1840. He was noted as an oculist.[3]
In 1853, Bulloch was a co-founder of Savannah Medical College, also serving as its chair of surgery.[3] He also served as the president of Georgia Medical Society.
In 1851, Bulloch married Mary Eliza Lewis,[4] a member of the Georgia chapter of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.[5] They had three children who lived to adulthood: Joseph,[6] Robert and Emma.[5]
He was awarded two large silver pitchers by the residents of Beaufort County, North Carolina, for his work in treating victims of the 1854 yellow fever pandemic.[2]
He was elected a member of the Gynecological Society of Boston in 1869.[3]
He served during the latter stages of the Civil War as a surgeon of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States in Richmond, Virginia, and as head of Broughton Street Hospital in Savannah.[7] He also served as an alderman on Savannah's city council.[3]
He was practicing with his son, Dr. Joseph G. Bulloch, in Savannah in 1880.
Death
Bulloch died in 1885,[3] aged 69, at his 114 West Liberty Street home in Savannah. He had experienced gastroenteritis for ten days. He was interred in the city's Laurel Grove Cemetery. Bulloch's widow survived him by 17 years and was buried beside him.
References
- ^ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie (1923). A History of the Glen Family of South Carolina and Georgia. Books on Demand. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-608-31846-2.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ a b of 1835, Yale University Class; Thatcher, Thomas Anthony (1881). Biographical and Historical Record of the Class of 1835 in Yale College: For the Fifty Years from the Admission of the Class to College. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers. p. 41.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e f Jones (Jr.), Charles Colcock (1890). History of Savannah, Ga: From Its Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth Century. D. Mason & Company. p. 442.
- ^ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie (1901). A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family. R. L. Bryan Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-598-42921-6.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ a b Some "colonial Dames" of Royal Descent: Pedigrees Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some Members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, and of the Order of the Crown. 1900. p. 330.
- ^ Browning, Charles Henry (1915). Magna Charta Barons and Their Descendants, with the Story of the Great Charter of King John: Sketches of the Celebrated Twenty-five Sureties for Its Observance, and Their Lineal Descents from Them of the Members of the Baronial Order of Runnemede.
- ^ Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families in These States. Southern Historical Press. 1889. p. 112.