Background
Collins, Joseph Dorsey was born on February 3, 1884 in Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Son of George Thomas Dorsey and Emma Davis (Hutchinson) Collins.
Collins, Joseph Dorsey was born on February 3, 1884 in Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. Son of George Thomas Dorsey and Emma Davis (Hutchinson) Collins.
Educated Washington and Lee University, 1899-1901. Doctor of Medicine Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 1905.
Practiced at Portsmouth, Virginia, since 1906. Consultant surgeon; chairman department of surgery Portsmouth General Hospital. Formerly member Board of Visitors, Medical College of Virginia.
Member Founders Group of American Board of Surgery. Fellow American Medical Association, American College Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Southern Surgical Association, Southeastern Surgical Congress. Member Southern Medical Association, Medical Society Virginia, Seaborad Medical Society, Norfolk County Medical Society (past president).
Mason (32 degree, Shriner).
Married Julia Crump Cottrell, April.