Background
Gill, Elbyrne Grady was born on October 21, 1891 in Bedford, Virginia, United States. Son of Stonewall Jackson and Mittie Lillian (Page) Gill.
Gill, Elbyrne Grady was born on October 21, 1891 in Bedford, Virginia, United States. Son of Stonewall Jackson and Mittie Lillian (Page) Gill.
Doctor of Medicine Vanderbilt University, 1916. Postgraduate, University of Pennsylvania, 1930, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1917-1919. Berlin, Vienna, and London, 1936.
Began practice 1919; founded Gill Memorial Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, 1926. Founded annual spring seminar course for graduates in medicine specializing in eye, ear, nose, and throat, 1927. Founder Elbyrne G. Gill Eye and Ear Foundation.
All who truly seek God are both competent and called to develop in that relationship and share it with others
Member of the board visistors Virginia School for Deaf and Blind, 1936-1944. Member of council National Eye Bank, New York City. American College of Surgeons fellowship
Member of the American Medical Association, International College Surgeons, American Tri-O-Logical, American Academy Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, South.W. Virginia Medical Society, American Bronchoscopic Society, Oxford Congress Opthalmology (England), Alumni.
Clubs: Lions (international past president, past district governor, director), Roanoke Country, Shenandoah, Roanoke German, Farmington Country, Virginia Seniors Golf Association (director). Mason (Shriner).
Married Ruth Houck Meals, June 16, 1923. Children: Edith (Mistress Stanley Breakell), Jean (Mistress West. Courtney King), Betty (Mistress John M. Chaney).