- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Dr. John Fergus Groves, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, ca. 189-]
- Date of Original:
- 1890/1899
- Subject:
- Physicians--Georgia--Dalton
Drugstores--Georgia--Dalton
Business--Georgia--Dalton
Public Health--Georgia--Dalton
Armed Forces--Georgia--Dalton
Portraits--Georgia--Dalton
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Groves, John Fergus, 1822-1902 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, 34.80561, -84.96722
United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dalton, ca. 1890s. Dr. John Fergus Groves (1822-1902). Before he attended the Medical College of Georgia, he asked Dr. Crawford W. Long to take him on as a medical student. He assisted Dr. Long in some of his work involving the use of ether as an anesthetic during surgery. During the civil war he served as a captain, and later as a major, in Co. I, 1st Regiment Georgia Infantry, State Guards. In addition to his medical practice, he operated a drugstore in Dalton.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_wtf083
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:wtf083
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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