parents are Edwin Howard and Joanna Turpin∼1861 went to Monrovia, Liberia with Dr. Charles Benjamin Dunbar a physician, became student in Liberia College; first African American graduate Harvard University Medical School in 1869; practicing medicine in Philadelphia, distinguished himself during the 1870 smallpox epidemic; a member of the original staff of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital founded in 1895 and chairman of the Nurses' Training School; 1905 co-founded Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia; spent time visiting hospitals and institutions in England and France as an observer and student; member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association; a surgeon for the 12th Regiment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; first Master of Alban Lodge No. 57 Prince Hall Masons (now St. Alban Lodge No. 35); a founder of Sigma Phi Pi Fraternity, the first African American Greek letter organization; served as a president and member of the Citizens Republican Club and member of the Public School Board of the Seventh Ward; Vestryman and later Warden of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
obituary in the Journal of the National Medical Association identified him as the oldest practitioner in the city of Philadelphia.
parents
Joan Louise Turpin Howard
Edwin Frederick Howard
siblings
Adeline T. Howard
Joan Imogene Howard
obituary in the Journal of the National Medical Association identified him as the oldest practitioner in the city of Philadelphia.
parents
Joan Louise Turpin Howard
Edwin Frederick Howard
siblings
Adeline T. Howard
Joan Imogene Howard
parents are Edwin Howard and Joanna Turpin∼1861 went to Monrovia, Liberia with Dr. Charles Benjamin Dunbar a physician, became student in Liberia College; first African American graduate Harvard University Medical School in 1869; practicing medicine in Philadelphia, distinguished himself during the 1870 smallpox epidemic; a member of the original staff of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital founded in 1895 and chairman of the Nurses' Training School; 1905 co-founded Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia; spent time visiting hospitals and institutions in England and France as an observer and student; member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association; a surgeon for the 12th Regiment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania; first Master of Alban Lodge No. 57 Prince Hall Masons (now St. Alban Lodge No. 35); a founder of Sigma Phi Pi Fraternity, the first African American Greek letter organization; served as a president and member of the Citizens Republican Club and member of the Public School Board of the Seventh Ward; Vestryman and later Warden of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
obituary in the Journal of the National Medical Association identified him as the oldest practitioner in the city of Philadelphia.
parents
Joan Louise Turpin Howard
Edwin Frederick Howard
siblings
Adeline T. Howard
Joan Imogene Howard
obituary in the Journal of the National Medical Association identified him as the oldest practitioner in the city of Philadelphia.
parents
Joan Louise Turpin Howard
Edwin Frederick Howard
siblings
Adeline T. Howard
Joan Imogene Howard
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