Excerpts from "Physicians of Tift County, Volume 1" Compiled by Martha Sue Williams Pittman and published by the members of the Women's Auxiliary to the Tift Co, Medical Society . C. 1972, located in the Tifton Public library. pages 28-29.
Dr. Hendricks was the son of Robert and Nancy Parish Hendricks. He attended school at Millen, Georgia High school and the Georgia State Medical College at Augusta, but graduated with honors in medicine from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1897. He took courses in medicine in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He began practice in Lenox, Ga, and married Leila May Dell, of Ty Ty, Ga. He moved his practice to Tifton in 1900. He and Dr, Nick Peterson opened Tifton's first hospital in the second story of Brooks Drug Store building. The present operating room at Tift County Hospital is named in his honor.
He was involved in naval store operations, agriculture, and was Director and vice-president of the National Bank of Tifton. He served on the Tifton City council, Board of education, was mayor of Tifton in 1914 and represented Tift County in the Ga General Assembly from 1907-1910 and in the Georgia Senate from 1915-17.
He was a Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during World War I and served in the General Surgery Division of Evaucation Hospital #48 until Dec. 23, 1919. He was first Vice-President of the Medical Association of Georgia, served on the State Board of Health and was a trustee for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Alto, Ga and surgeon to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad.
Dr. Hendricks was the son of Robert and Nancy Parish Hendricks. He attended school at Millen, Georgia High school and the Georgia State Medical College at Augusta, but graduated with honors in medicine from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1897. He took courses in medicine in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He began practice in Lenox, Ga, and married Leila May Dell, of Ty Ty, Ga. He moved his practice to Tifton in 1900. He and Dr, Nick Peterson opened Tifton's first hospital in the second story of Brooks Drug Store building. The present operating room at Tift County Hospital is named in his honor.
He was involved in naval store operations, agriculture, and was Director and vice-president of the National Bank of Tifton. He served on the Tifton City council, Board of education, was mayor of Tifton in 1914 and represented Tift County in the Ga General Assembly from 1907-1910 and in the Georgia Senate from 1915-17.
He was a Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during World War I and served in the General Surgery Division of Evaucation Hospital #48 until Dec. 23, 1919. He was first Vice-President of the Medical Association of Georgia, served on the State Board of Health and was a trustee for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Alto, Ga and surgeon to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad.
Excerpts from "Physicians of Tift County, Volume 1" Compiled by Martha Sue Williams Pittman and published by the members of the Women's Auxiliary to the Tift Co, Medical Society . C. 1972, located in the Tifton Public library. pages 28-29.
Dr. Hendricks was the son of Robert and Nancy Parish Hendricks. He attended school at Millen, Georgia High school and the Georgia State Medical College at Augusta, but graduated with honors in medicine from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1897. He took courses in medicine in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He began practice in Lenox, Ga, and married Leila May Dell, of Ty Ty, Ga. He moved his practice to Tifton in 1900. He and Dr, Nick Peterson opened Tifton's first hospital in the second story of Brooks Drug Store building. The present operating room at Tift County Hospital is named in his honor.
He was involved in naval store operations, agriculture, and was Director and vice-president of the National Bank of Tifton. He served on the Tifton City council, Board of education, was mayor of Tifton in 1914 and represented Tift County in the Ga General Assembly from 1907-1910 and in the Georgia Senate from 1915-17.
He was a Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during World War I and served in the General Surgery Division of Evaucation Hospital #48 until Dec. 23, 1919. He was first Vice-President of the Medical Association of Georgia, served on the State Board of Health and was a trustee for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Alto, Ga and surgeon to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad.
Dr. Hendricks was the son of Robert and Nancy Parish Hendricks. He attended school at Millen, Georgia High school and the Georgia State Medical College at Augusta, but graduated with honors in medicine from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1897. He took courses in medicine in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He began practice in Lenox, Ga, and married Leila May Dell, of Ty Ty, Ga. He moved his practice to Tifton in 1900. He and Dr, Nick Peterson opened Tifton's first hospital in the second story of Brooks Drug Store building. The present operating room at Tift County Hospital is named in his honor.
He was involved in naval store operations, agriculture, and was Director and vice-president of the National Bank of Tifton. He served on the Tifton City council, Board of education, was mayor of Tifton in 1914 and represented Tift County in the Ga General Assembly from 1907-1910 and in the Georgia Senate from 1915-17.
He was a Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during World War I and served in the General Surgery Division of Evaucation Hospital #48 until Dec. 23, 1919. He was first Vice-President of the Medical Association of Georgia, served on the State Board of Health and was a trustee for the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Alto, Ga and surgeon to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad.
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