Background
Douglas, Gilbert Franklin was born on January 13, 1888 in Pushmatah, Alabama, United States. Son of George Washington and Sarah Belinda (Grace) Douglas.
Douglas, Gilbert Franklin was born on January 13, 1888 in Pushmatah, Alabama, United States. Son of George Washington and Sarah Belinda (Grace) Douglas.
Graduate, Meridian College. Doctor of Medicine, University Alabama, 1910.
Assistant physician, East Mississippi Insane Hospital, Meridian, 1911-1916; with postgraduate training, New York Polyclin. Medical school and Hospital, 1914, 17; with postgraduate training, Harvard University Graduate School Medicine, 1916; with postgraduate training, New York Lying-In Hospital, 1917; with postgraduate training, U. Paris, 1919; member of staff, South Highlands Infirmary, Birmingham Baptist Hospitals, University Hospital, Carraway Methodist Hospital, East End Memorial Hospital, Birmingham associate professor clinical gynecology, Medical College Alabama.
Served captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1917-1919. Fellow International College Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Southeastern Surgical Congress, American Society Study Sterility, International Fertility Association, American College Ob-Gyn. Member American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, Medical Association Alabama, Jefferson County Medical Association, Temple Academia, Center Association Ob-Gyn, Alabama Association Ob-Gyn, Birmingham Ob-Gyn Society, Birmingham Academy Surgeons, Southern Society Cancer Cytology, American Cancer Society, Society Obstetricians and Gynecologists Dominican Republic.
Married Mary Rachael Griffin, June 26, 1912. Children: Mary Elizabeth, Gilbert Franklin, Sarah Frances, George Capers, Lillian Miriam, William Wesley.