Background
Leslie Vaughn Rush was born in Meridian, Mississippi on February 16, 1905, the third and youngest child of Doctor Jesse Hackley Rush and his wife, the former Mary Hunnicutt.
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Career
On February 15, 1915, the day before his tenth birthday, Leslie"s father founded Rush"s Infirmary, the first private hospital in Meridian. He joined the staff of his father"s hospital in 1927. In 1936, Leslie made medical history when he performed the first known bone pinning in the United States.
This revolutionary treatment of bone fractures led to the development of the "Rush pin," which is still use today.
In 1944, Doctor Rush along with Catherine Hovious, and Doctor Her Majesty Ivey, superintendent of Meridian Public Schools, joined forces with Meridian Junior College and initiated the first junior college and hospital nursing program in the state of Mississippi. He died in February 1987.
