Hugh S. Black

Background

Black, Hugh S. was born on October 12, 1892 in Wellford, South Carolina, United States. Son of Hugh Ratchford and Mary Louisa Snoddy) Black.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Wofford College, 1913. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, 1917.

Career

Interne Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1918. Fellow surgery Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, 1919-1923, 1st surgical assistant to Doctor West. East. Sistrunk, 1920-1921, 1st surgical assistant to Doctor William J. Mayo, 1921-1923. Practicing surgeon, Spartanburg, South Carolina., since 1923, founding and operating with Doctor Hugh R. Black and Doctor Samuel O. Black the Mary Black Clinic Private Hospital, since 1925, surgeon to Wofford Infirmary, Southern Railway, Piedmont & North. Railway, Duke Power Company, visiting surgeon Spartanburg General Hospital, Colored Hospital, Laurens (South Carolina.) Hospital visitor and student clinics Europe and South. American.

Achievements

• Hugh S. Black has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American College Surgeons. Member South.E. Surgical Congress, Alumni Association, Mayo Foundation, Association Southern Railway Surgeons (past president), American Medical Association, and Southern Medical, South. C. State, Tri-State and Spartanburg medical societies, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Kappa Kappa. Club: Piedmont.

Connections

Married Iris Burrus, September 29, 1925, (died 1933). Married second, Darthey Deene Israel, November 2, 1945.