Английская Википедия:A. Wilberforce Williams
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person A. Wilberforce Williams (January 31, 1865–February 26, 1940),[1] was an American physician, surgeon, educator, and journalist.[2] He worked in Chicago for most of his career and specialized in internal medicine, the treatment of tuberculosis, and heart disease. Williams wrote a health column for The Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper.
Early life and education
Albert Wilberforce Williams was born on January 31, 1865 in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, to African American parents Flora and Baptise Williams.[1][3][4] His first thirteen years of life was spent on a plantation.[4]
He attended the Normal School at Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, Missouri.[1][4] He had worked as a school teacher in Kansas City in his early career.[3] Williams graduated from Northwestern University Medical School (now Feinberg School of Medicine) in 1894, and Sheldon Business College of Chicago in 1907.[1] In 1902, he married Mary Elizabeth Tibbs a school teacher from Kentucky.[1][5]
Career
From 1897 until 1940, he worked as a staff physician at Chicago's Provident Hospital, working alongside noted cardiologist and hospital founder Daniel Hale Williams.[1][3][6] He was also the head of the medical department post-graduate school at Provident Hospital.[4]
He wrote a health column for The Chicago Defender, titled "Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams Talks on Preventive Measures, First Aid Remedies, Hygienics and Sanitation."[6] Williams advocated for better sanitary practices, hygiene, proper ventilation, preventative medical care, and against superstition. He also wrote about venereal diseases and masturbation, at a time when it was against the cultural normal.[7]
The United States government selected Williams as a member of an advisory board, to supervise the work of the local exemptions board.[4] Williams was the president of the Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists Association of Chicago.[3][4] He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and served as their "grand medical director".[3]
He corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois twice, which is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries archives; the first correspondence was regarding the second Pan-African Congress (1921), and the second was his interest in the Encyclopedia of the Negro (1935).[8][9]
Williams died from a heart attack on February 26, 1940 in Chicago.[5][10] He is buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois.
See also
References
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