Daniel Hale

Williams

2/15/2012

By Woojin Kim

Early Life He was born in Hollidaysburg,

Pennsylvania on January 18, 1858.

He was the fifth of seventh children in his family.

His family moved to Baltimore, Maryland because his father Daniel died.

Early Life (Continued)

He became apprentice of shoemaker until he became teenager.

After three years, he learned how to cut hair and became barber and worked in his family’s barber shop in Janesville, Wisconsin.

He went to high school in Janesville and graduated Hare’s Classical Academy in 1877.

Early life (Continued)

While he was working in barber shop, he met Dr. Palmer, who was a surgeon.

William learned from Dr. Palmer for two years and in 1880 he entered the Chicago Medical school.

Early Life (Continued)

William learned from Dr. Palmer for two years and in 1880 he entered the Chicago Medical school.

He graduated Chicago Medical school in 1883 and opened his own medical office in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1883, He was the one of four African American Doctors at Chicago.

Dr. William practiced surgery and medicine at South Side Dispensary and instructor of anatomy at Northwest University.

He worked as medical doctor for a Civil Railroad Company and a Protestant Orphan Asylum.

In 1889, he appointed as Illinois Board of Health.

Hospital On January 23,

1891 Dr. William established the first African American owned hospital, the Provident Hospital with twelve beds.

Hospital (Continued)

Also he established first nursing school for African Americans.

He employed White and African American doctors to Provident Hospital.

He told doctors to keep abreast of latest advances in medicine.

In 1893, James Cornish came to Provident Hospital with a stab wound to the chest.

During this time there was no X-ray machines, so the doctors didn’t know what to do.

Dr. William decided to do open surgery because James’s condition became deteriorate.

Dr. William opened Cornish’s chest and looked up for what he could do.

He found a pierced blood vessel and a tear to the pericardium tissue around the heart.

He sutured those injuries to stop bleeding and sewed his chest.

The surgery was successful.

Newspaper

The headlines of newspaper was "Sewed Up His Heart! Remarkable Surgical Operation on a Colored Man!”.

Dr. William became surgeon in chief at Freedom’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.

He organized specific departments like Medical, Surgical, Gynecological, Obstetrical, Dermatological, etc.

He helped to organize the National Medical Association Which was the only medical Organization for African Americans.

In 1989, Dr. William married Alice Johnson who was the school teacher.

He moved to Chicago after he resigned from the Freedom hospital.

He became a surgeon in chief at Provident Hospital.

He was often invited to speak to the doctor’s associations around the country on the subject of health care for African Americans.

Death In 1926 he retired

after suffering a stroke.

He died in Idlewild, Michigan, in 1931.

His wife Alice Johnson died in 1924.

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