Captain Antonio Johnston Waring, Sr., MD

Dr Antonio Johnston Waring Sr.

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Son of Antonio de Gogorza and Annie Johnston (Waring), daughter of James Johnston and Mary Brewton Waring (Alston).

Husband of Sue Cole Waring (Winburn).

Antonio Johnston Waring (B.A. 1903) was born in Savannah, Georgia, November 27, 1881, prepared at the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School and entered college in the fall of 1899.

His father, Antonio de Gogorza, deceased, a cotton and lumber merchant, also Portuguese Consul, was born in Cartagena, Spain on July 17, 1852, the son of Antonio de Gogorza and Maria (Zuarez) de Gogorza.

His mother, whose maiden name was Annie Johnston Waring, resumed her maiden name of Waring in 1883. She was the daughter of James Johnston Waring (Yale 1850) and Mary Brewton Waring (Alston).

Waring's Yale relatives besides his grandfather include a brother, James Johnston Waring (1904 s.); three uncles, Pinckney Alston Waring, of the Class of 1881, James Johnston Waring (1887), and Thomas Pinckey Waring (1889); and a first cousin, William Frederick Waring (1891 S.).

In college Waring was chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, won a Henry James Ten Eyck second prize in Junior year and was the John Bennetto Scholar in Senior year. He was Secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of Chi Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones societies and held a High Oration Junior appointment and the same Senior appointment.

The first year after graduation he spent in New Haven as Secretary of the Academic Department of the Yale University Christian Association. He entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, in the fall of 1904 and expects to get his M.D. in 1908. His present address is 527 Madison Ave., New York City. His home address is 3 Perry St. West, Savannah, Georgia.