Background
By 1798 Doctor George Cabell was practicing in Lynchburg, and that year married Sarah Winston (1770–1826), the eldest daughter of Judge Edmund Winston and Alice Taylor Winston.
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Career
He became the first to earn an official medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. She was a lady of "great elegance, beauty and refinement". One year later George was the attending physician at the death of his patriot friend.
Patrick Henry"s son Alexander Spotswood Henry would later marry George"s daughter Paulina Cabell.
Spotswood was a leader in Virginia and American history for a number of his projects as Governor, including his exploring beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains, his establishing what was perhaps the first colonial iron works, and his negotiating the Treaty of Albany with the Iroquois Nations of New New York George was the son of Colonel
John Cabell, who was the son of William Cabell the immigrant. From the time the immigrant William came ashore in 1726, the Cabells established a family tradition of medical care which continued into the nineteenth century when the practice of medicine became highly regulated, and formal training a prerequisite.
William Cabell, who may not have had any formal training before arriving, more than made up for it by purchasing dozens of medical books
He embraced a "no cure, no fee" policy, in which he charged only those patients who recovered. The tradition continued with Cabell, Junior."s son, Doctor James Lawrence Cabell, who became a Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at the University of Virginia and the president of the short-lived National Board of Health, 1876-1883. Finished in 1816, the grand estate would depict a colorful history in the Lynchburg annals and later be named Point of Honor to reflect stories of it being an alleged location for settling arguments with duels.
George died in Lynchburg in 1823 as a result of a fall from his horse.
There he would be laid to rest. Famous relatives include Colonel
William J. Lewis and John Cabell Breckinridge, 14th Vice President of the United States. under James Buchanan. The home is now a museum and open to the public.
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Paulina Jordan Henry (Cabell)
Marion Fontaine Cabell
John Breckinridge Cabell
George Kuhn Cabell
Alice Winston Carrington (Cabell)
William J. Lewis Cabell
Edmund Winston Cabell
Sarah Cabell.
