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Dr. Otis Leon Jordan was one of the 50 doctors on staff when the new Druid City Hospital (DCH) opened in 1952.

According to his Tuscaloosa News obituary on 25 September 1986 Dr. Jordan was a physician in Tuscaloosa for more than 35 years. Dr.…

The letter, written on February 18, 1866, by Dr. Peter Bryce (1834-1892), first superintendent of what is now Bryce Hospital, to his wife, Ellen Bryce, who was in Columbia, S.C.

The letter, which is written over the course of three days, is eight…

Dr. Bryce wrote to his "dear Nellie" on the last day of 1879. She was at her family home in Columbia, South Carolina.

A letter written by Dr. Peter Bryce Superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospital to the Board of Trustees at the University of South Carolina. The letter concerned W.H. Verner's qualifications for Professorship. Dr. Bryce was joined in the letter by…

Dr. Robert Hunt Cochrane was one of the 50 doctors on staff when the new Druid City Hospital (DCH) opened in 1952. He was the first Chief of Obstetrics. According to his Tuscaloosa News obituary, Dr. Cochrane was a physician in Tuscaloosa from…

Dr. Ruby Tyler was one of the 50 doctors on staff when the new Druid City Hospital (DCH) opened in 1952. She was also the only female doctor on staff at that time. Ruby Tyler Parkway, near the DCH Regional Medical Center, was named in her…

Dr. Rufus Cornelius Partlow Sr. was born in 1885 in St. Clair County, Partlow and his older brother, W.D. (William Dempsey) Partlow grew up on a farm and left to attend medical school. Both interned at Bryce Hospital and spent their careers treating…

According to his Tuscaloosa News obituary on March 17, 1949, Dr. Samuel T. Hardin was a longtime Northport physician. Dr. Hardin began his professional career as a pharmacist in Northport before he graduated from the University of Alabama Medical…

According to his Tuscaloosa News obituary Dr. Shamblin was married to Rebekah Cummins and had three daughters Mrs. Marie S. Ball, Mrs. Rebekah S. Harris and Mrs. Doris S. O'Cain. Dr. Shamblin was a 1919 graduate of the University of Alabama Medical…

In 1963, the Druid City Hospital had a nine-person board of trustees, a body created by the Alabama Legislature and was designed to remain free of politics. The board was charged with setting the policies and planning for the future of the…