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Physician
Born James Marion SIMS
American physician and a pioneer in the field of surgery
Born on January 25, 1813 in Lancaster County, South Carolina , United States
Died on November 13, 1883 in Manhattan, New York City, New York , United States
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After his father was elected as sheriff of Lancaster County, he sent Sims in 1825 to the newly established Franklin Academy for white youths. In 1832, after two years of study at the South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society, Sims worked with Churchill Jones in Lancaster, South Carolina, and took a three-month course at the Medical College of Charleston. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834 and enrolled at the Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in 1835. He returned to Lancaster to practice. After the deaths of his first two patients, he left and set up a practice in Mount Meigs, Alabama.
... J. Marion Sims (called Marion) was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, the son of John and Mahala (Mackey) Sims. For his first 12 years, Sims's family lived in Lancaster Village north of Hanging Rock Creek, where his father owned a store. Sims later wrote of his early school days there.
After his father was elected as sheriff of Lancaster County, he sent Sims in 1825 to the newly established Franklin Academy for white youths. In 1832, after two years of study at the South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society, Sims worked with Churchill Jones in Lancaster, South Carolina, and took a three-month course at the Medical College of Charleston. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1834 and enrolled at the Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in 1835. He returned to Lancaster to practice. After the deaths of his first two patients, he left and set up a practice in Mount Meigs, Alabama.
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