Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Stanford, Frank A. 1825 - 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 September 19, 2004, 1:49 am Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga. Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga. Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895 Pages 235-236 Memoirs of Deceased Physicians Frank A. Stanford, M.D., Columbus, Ga. Dr. Stanford died in 1885, aged sixty years. I have been unable to obtain data as to his early youth and much of his life which are necessary to write a full memoir of him. He graduated M.D. from the University of New York City. (I cannot ascertain the date.) He served a term on the resident staff of the New York hospital. From a relative of his I learn that Profs. Valentine Mott and Van Buren, of New York, regarded Dr. Stanford at the time of his graduation as one of the most promising young physicians of that day. In him their prophecy was fulfilled, for he became one of the greatest of Georgia’s great doctors. He was great in all departments of his profession. He was one of our most renowned general practitioners of medicine, and as a surgeon ranked second to none of Georgia’s great surgeons; indeed, he was the peer of the greatest surgeons in America, and had he lived in New York would have attained a national distinction. He performed almost all of the capital operations known to surgery in his day. During the civil war he was medical director of Wheeler’s cavalry corps, occupying this position until the surrender of the Confederate army, discharging his duties of his high position to the great benefit of the Confederate cause, and to the eminent satisfaction of his distinguished commander. Dr. Stanford was a remarkably handsome man. In military and civil life he was a brave, courteous, highly cultured gentleman, and commanded the respect and confidence of all who were so fortunate as to know him. He was for many years a member of the medical association of Georgia, and contributed to the volumes of the transactions of this association many of its ablest papers. Besides the above mentioned articles, he contributed much and ably to medical literature through medical journals. He was one of the most useful and highly honored members of the state board of health in Georgia, and was regarded as one of the most eminent sanitarians in America. With the exception of the period embraced in his army life, he was a resident of Columbus, Ga. and was considered the most distinguished man in that section of the state. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/bios/bs243stanford.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb