1924 Colored Detroit, 24 (Dunbar Memorial Hospital)
- Identifier
- DBB-ITM-01944
- Source
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Arthur Turner and Earl R. Moses, eds., Colored Detroit: A Brief History of Detroit’s Colored Population and a Directory of Their Businesses, Organizations, Professions and Trades (Detroit, 1924). Page: 24.
- Date
- 1924
- Source Type
- Brief mention
- Activity
- hospital
- Mentions
- Turner, Alexander L.
- Transcriber Comment
- This paragraph, transcribed from the biographical profile of Dr. Alexander L. Turner on p. 24, discusses his involvement in Dunbar Memorial Hospital. The article headline is "DR. ALEXANDER L. TURNER, A Leading Negro Physician and Surgeon of Detroit."
- Transcript
- Besides being a charter member, he [Dr. Alexander L. Turner] claims to be the founder of the Dunbar Memorial Hospital. He was that institution's first Secretary and one of the first Trustees. It is known that during that institution's infancy and hardest struggles he paid out of his own resources, some of the bills incurred by the institution. The Board of Trustees appointed him surgeon to the hospital at its founding. Since then no other has been honored with that appointment.
- Title
- 1924 Colored Detroit, 24 (Dunbar Memorial Hospital)
- Resource class
- Documentation