Walker Gill Wylie, M.D., was the son of Alexander Pierson & Juliette Agnes (Gill) Wylie.
Walker volunteered his youthful services to the Southern army as Lieutenant. At this tender age he commanded a company in front of General Sherman's army in its march from Savannah into North Carolina. When hostilities had ceased, he entered the University of South Carolina. After graduating he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city. 1871 he graduated. Dr. Wylie's went to Europe and make an especial investigation and study of hospital nursing and systems of hospital management. He presented at the Cooper Institute, a paper on "Training Schools for Nurses." At that time the subject was quite new, and the consequence has been to revolutionize the system in the United States. The Bellevue Training School was organized and Dr. Wylie has personally examined every graduate during that entire time. He was greatly interested in hospital work, and cooperated with the State Charities' Aid Association in this matter.
But his remarkable skill in gynecology and great success in abdominal surgery soon made him very prominent in this especial line of surgery, and placed him among the most brilliant and successful operators. In 1882 he was appointed visiting gynecologist of Bellevue Hospital.
His brother, Dr. Robert H, Wylie, was also a surgeon of considerable prominence.
Dr. Wylie was Professor of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon of the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y, He is the author of numerous treatises and papers relating to his specialty, gynecology.
In June, 1877, Dr. Wylie was married to Miss Fannie H. Damon, a Missouri native, and daughter of Edward A. Damon, a merchant engaged in business in St. Louis. Dr. and Mrs. Wylie had six children, with five alive by 1910:
1. Julie W Leech,a widow in 1910, born about Nov. 1877 in NY
2. Lucilla D., born 03 Aug 1879 in Massachusetts, wed Berg died in 1912
3. Simon, born April 1882 New York, died 23 March 1925
4. Edward , born in 1887 New York
5. Walker G Wylie Jr., born Nov. 1893 New York
Died by 1923.
Walker volunteered his youthful services to the Southern army as Lieutenant. At this tender age he commanded a company in front of General Sherman's army in its march from Savannah into North Carolina. When hostilities had ceased, he entered the University of South Carolina. After graduating he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city. 1871 he graduated. Dr. Wylie's went to Europe and make an especial investigation and study of hospital nursing and systems of hospital management. He presented at the Cooper Institute, a paper on "Training Schools for Nurses." At that time the subject was quite new, and the consequence has been to revolutionize the system in the United States. The Bellevue Training School was organized and Dr. Wylie has personally examined every graduate during that entire time. He was greatly interested in hospital work, and cooperated with the State Charities' Aid Association in this matter.
But his remarkable skill in gynecology and great success in abdominal surgery soon made him very prominent in this especial line of surgery, and placed him among the most brilliant and successful operators. In 1882 he was appointed visiting gynecologist of Bellevue Hospital.
His brother, Dr. Robert H, Wylie, was also a surgeon of considerable prominence.
Dr. Wylie was Professor of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon of the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y, He is the author of numerous treatises and papers relating to his specialty, gynecology.
In June, 1877, Dr. Wylie was married to Miss Fannie H. Damon, a Missouri native, and daughter of Edward A. Damon, a merchant engaged in business in St. Louis. Dr. and Mrs. Wylie had six children, with five alive by 1910:
1. Julie W Leech,a widow in 1910, born about Nov. 1877 in NY
2. Lucilla D., born 03 Aug 1879 in Massachusetts, wed Berg died in 1912
3. Simon, born April 1882 New York, died 23 March 1925
4. Edward , born in 1887 New York
5. Walker G Wylie Jr., born Nov. 1893 New York
Died by 1923.
Walker Gill Wylie, M.D., was the son of Alexander Pierson & Juliette Agnes (Gill) Wylie.
Walker volunteered his youthful services to the Southern army as Lieutenant. At this tender age he commanded a company in front of General Sherman's army in its march from Savannah into North Carolina. When hostilities had ceased, he entered the University of South Carolina. After graduating he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city. 1871 he graduated. Dr. Wylie's went to Europe and make an especial investigation and study of hospital nursing and systems of hospital management. He presented at the Cooper Institute, a paper on "Training Schools for Nurses." At that time the subject was quite new, and the consequence has been to revolutionize the system in the United States. The Bellevue Training School was organized and Dr. Wylie has personally examined every graduate during that entire time. He was greatly interested in hospital work, and cooperated with the State Charities' Aid Association in this matter.
But his remarkable skill in gynecology and great success in abdominal surgery soon made him very prominent in this especial line of surgery, and placed him among the most brilliant and successful operators. In 1882 he was appointed visiting gynecologist of Bellevue Hospital.
His brother, Dr. Robert H, Wylie, was also a surgeon of considerable prominence.
Dr. Wylie was Professor of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon of the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y, He is the author of numerous treatises and papers relating to his specialty, gynecology.
In June, 1877, Dr. Wylie was married to Miss Fannie H. Damon, a Missouri native, and daughter of Edward A. Damon, a merchant engaged in business in St. Louis. Dr. and Mrs. Wylie had six children, with five alive by 1910:
1. Julie W Leech,a widow in 1910, born about Nov. 1877 in NY
2. Lucilla D., born 03 Aug 1879 in Massachusetts, wed Berg died in 1912
3. Simon, born April 1882 New York, died 23 March 1925
4. Edward , born in 1887 New York
5. Walker G Wylie Jr., born Nov. 1893 New York
Died by 1923.
Walker volunteered his youthful services to the Southern army as Lieutenant. At this tender age he commanded a company in front of General Sherman's army in its march from Savannah into North Carolina. When hostilities had ceased, he entered the University of South Carolina. After graduating he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city. 1871 he graduated. Dr. Wylie's went to Europe and make an especial investigation and study of hospital nursing and systems of hospital management. He presented at the Cooper Institute, a paper on "Training Schools for Nurses." At that time the subject was quite new, and the consequence has been to revolutionize the system in the United States. The Bellevue Training School was organized and Dr. Wylie has personally examined every graduate during that entire time. He was greatly interested in hospital work, and cooperated with the State Charities' Aid Association in this matter.
But his remarkable skill in gynecology and great success in abdominal surgery soon made him very prominent in this especial line of surgery, and placed him among the most brilliant and successful operators. In 1882 he was appointed visiting gynecologist of Bellevue Hospital.
His brother, Dr. Robert H, Wylie, was also a surgeon of considerable prominence.
Dr. Wylie was Professor of Gynecology in the New York Polyclinic Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon of the Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y, He is the author of numerous treatises and papers relating to his specialty, gynecology.
In June, 1877, Dr. Wylie was married to Miss Fannie H. Damon, a Missouri native, and daughter of Edward A. Damon, a merchant engaged in business in St. Louis. Dr. and Mrs. Wylie had six children, with five alive by 1910:
1. Julie W Leech,a widow in 1910, born about Nov. 1877 in NY
2. Lucilla D., born 03 Aug 1879 in Massachusetts, wed Berg died in 1912
3. Simon, born April 1882 New York, died 23 March 1925
4. Edward , born in 1887 New York
5. Walker G Wylie Jr., born Nov. 1893 New York
Died by 1923.
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