Francis Goodwin Dubose

Background

Dubose, Francis Goodwin was born on September 27, 1873 in Maplesville, Alabama, United States. Son of Franklin Davis and Anna M. (Goodwin) DuB.

Education

Preparatory education, Orrville (Alabama) Academy and Marion (Alabama) Military Institute. Student of University of Virginia. Doctor of Medicine Tulane University, 1893.

Graduate study New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago, 1893-1899, London, Berlin, Vienna, 1900, London and Paris, 1902, Paris, 1924.

Career

Began practice at Selma, 1893. Founder, 1911, later manager and chief of staff Vaughan Memorial Hospital. Retired, 1931.

Achievements

• Francis Goodwin Dubose has been listed as a noteworthy Doctor of Medicine surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Alabama State Committee National Defense, World War. Member State Board Examiners for Nurses, Alabama. Fellow American College Surgeons (a founder), Southern Surgical Association.

Member of the American Medical Association, Medical Association, State of Alabama, Dallas Company Medical Society, Southern Medical Association (ex-chairman of the section on surgery), Alabama Eastern State Hospital Association (ex-president), Pi Gamma Museum.

Club: Town and Country. Wrote: Episodes in Black and White, 1932.

Writer over 30 monographs on surgical subjects. Discoverer of muscle in female perineum.

Connections

Married Aimee Nelson, of Selma, Alabama, June 11, 1902.

Father:

Franklin Davis DuB.

Mother:

Anna M. (Goodwin) DuB.

Spouse:

Aimee Nelson