Background
Leigh, Southgate was born on May 21, 1866 in Virginia, United States. Son of John Purviance and Fannie (Cowdery) Leigh.
Leigh, Southgate was born on May 21, 1866 in Virginia, United States. Son of John Purviance and Fannie (Cowdery) Leigh.
Doctor of Medicine University of Virginia, 1888. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1889. Interne-house surgeon, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, 1889-1891.
Special work, University of Vienna, 1892.
Practice at Norfolk, Virginia, since 1893. Founder and visiting surgeon and gynecologist, Sarah Leigh Hospital. Consultant surgeon Memorial Hospital.
Chief surgeon Virginian Railway.
Surgeon Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, Chesapeake & Ohio and Atlantic Coast Lincolnshire railways. Was president Common Council of Norfolk, Norfolk-Portsmouth Chamber Commerce, Norfolk-Portsmouth Alumni of University of Virginia, Tidewater Alumni Columbia University.
Member National and State Inter-racial Commissions. Fellow American College Surgeons (a founder).
Married Alice Creekmore, 1905. Children: Southgate, Alice, Sallie, Watkins.