Dr. James Johnston Waring, Sr. (CSA)

Dr James Johnston Waring

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Dr. Waring was a 19th-century American physician. His grandson was academic Joseph Frederick Waring.

Life and Career

3 West Perry Street in Savannah, Georgia, Waring's family home

Waring was born on August 19, 1829, in Savannah, Georgia, to Dr. William Richard Waring and Anne Moody Johnston. His mother died when he was seven; his father when he was 14.

He graduated from Yale College in 1850, followed by a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania two years later.

In early 1853, he worked in Dublin, then St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, followed by seven months in Paris. Upon his return to his native land, in 1856, he settled in Washington, D.C. He was elected 1857 Professor of Physiology, and Professor of Obstretics in the National Medical College. In 1859, he was elected surgeon and curator of the Washington Infirmary.

On May 23, 1856, Waring married Mary Alston in Waccamaw, South Carolina.

He held several academic posts between 1856 and 1860, before his return to his hometown of Savannah in 1861. He was appointed as a surgeon for the Provisional Army of the Confederate States in the Civil War.

In 1868, Waring was expelled from the Medical Society of Savannah for "providing surety on the bonds of people of color who were charged with riotous conduct," a decision that was reversed by the Supreme Court of Georgia. It was found that the Society did no have sufficient cause for the expulsion. Waring rented property on Skidaway Island to black people so that they might learn self-dependence. He was described as a "firm friend of the colored people."

Waring was practicing medicine in Savannah in 1870, living with his wife and six of their children at 3 West Perry Street in Chippewa Square. The couple's children were: Annie J. (born 1857), Mary B. (1859–1865), Pinckney Alston (1860), Helen (1862), James J. (1865), T. Pinckney (1867) and Minna A. (1869).

Also in the 1870s, Mary Magdalene Marshall, a prominent Savannah citizen, appointed Waring in a codicil to her will, making him a trustee of her estate and her granddaughter Mary Marshall Barclay.

When a yellow fever epidemic struck Savannah in 1876, he became chairman of a committee of the city government to carry out sanitary reform.

Death

After a long illness, Waring died on January 8, 1888, aged 58. He is interred in Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery. His wife survived him by 27 years. She is buried in Bonaventure Cemetery.
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Father: Dr. William Richard Waring (1787- 1843)
Mother: Anne Moody Johnston (1798-1836)

1836 - Mother, Anne, died in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
1843 - Father, William, died in Savannah, Georgia
1850 - Graduated, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut
1852 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (from: GA; thesis: "Histology of the Cell")
1852 - Assistant resident physician, Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1853-1854 - Post graduate medical education in hospitals of London, England; Paris, France; and Dublin, Ireland
04/23/1856 - Married, Mary Brewton (or Bruton or Broughton) Alston (1827-1915), Waccamaw, South Carolina
1856-1858 - Demonstrator of Anatomy, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
1856-1859 - Professor of Physiology, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
1856-1859 - Professor of Microscopical Anatomy, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
1857 - Dean, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
1859 - Professor of Obstetrics, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
1859 - Dean, Columbian University, Medical Department, Washington, DC
06/07/1860 - Practiced medicine, 4th Ward, Washington, DC (living with wife, Mary, and two children)
09/21/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/21/1861 - Ordered to report to the Surgeon General
10/09/1861 - "Surgeon J.J. Waring, C.S. Army, having reported at these Head Quarters in accordance with Special Orders fro the Surgeon General's Office dated Richmond, Va., October 7th , 1861, is hereby appointed Medical Director of this Department. All orders and instructions given by him to Medical Officers will be promptly obeyed. All communications, returns, certificates of Disability, etc. for these Head Quarters, having reference to the Medical Department, will be address to the Medical Director. The attention of all Medical Officers is called to the 41st paragraph of the Regulations for the Medical Department C.S. Army. The reports thereby required to be made to the Medical Director will be forwarded on the last day of each month. By order of Brig. Gen'l. R. H. Riddick, Asst. Adjt. Genl. Head Quarters, Department of N.C., Goldsboro, Gen. R.C. Gatlin, commanding"
10/09/1861 - "Surgeon J.J. Waring, C.S. Army Medical Director of this Department, will proceed to the District of the Cape Fear and inspect the Hospitals, Forts, Camps, and stations in that District. The Commanders of the troops will afford Dr. Waring every facility for complying with the foregoing instructions. By order of Brig. Genl. Gatlin. R. H. Riddick, Asst Adj. Genl., Head Quarters, Dept of N.C., Goldsboro" [S.O. 54 Dept. of N.C. Gen. Gatlin]
10/11/1861-10/15/1861 - Travelled from Goldsboro, NC, to Wilmington, NC, and back on official business
10/23/1861 - Ordered to proceed to the District of the Pamlico (S.O. 67 Dept. of N.C. Gen. Gatlin)
10/28/1861 - In a letter sent to Surg. J.J. Waring, Goldsboro, North Carolina, from the Surgeon General's Office, Richmond, VA, "Sir, As you were on duty at that time you are qualified in dating your acceptance of appointment from September 26th and drawing pay from the same period. Very Repect. S. P. Moore, Act Surg General"
11/08/1861 - Ordered to proceed to Raleigh, North Carolina (S.O. 94 Dept. of N.C. Gen. Gatlin)
11/11/1861 - Medical Director and Purveyor, Dept. of N.C.
01/13/1862 - "The following named medical officers will constitute 'An Army Medical Board' to convene at Goldsboro, North Carolina, for the examination of Medical Officers in the Command of Brig. Genl. Gatlin: Surgeon N. S. Crowell - President; Surgeon J.J. Waring - member; Surgeon W. M. Brown - member" [S.O. 10/9]
01/18/1862 - "Surgeon James J. Waring, Medical Director for this Department, will proceed to Newbern, Carolina City, and Washington, for the purpose of inspecting the Hospitals, and Camps of the Troops, stationed near those places. By order of Brig. Genl. Gatlin, Head Quarters, Dept. N.C., Goldsboro" (S.O. 14/2 Dept. of N.C. Gen. Gatlin)
01/00/1862 - Surgeon & Medical Director, Dept. of N.C., General R. C. Gatlin
02/28/1862 - Medical Director & Purveyor, Goldsboro, NC, Dept. of N.C., General Gatlin, commanding
03/20/1862 - Suspended as Surgeon & Medical Director of the Dept. of N.C. by General J.R. Anderson, commanding, for misconduct on March 14, 1862 (S.O. 56 Dept. of N.C. - General J.R. Anderson)
03/27/1862 - In a letter from Surgeon General S. P. Moore, Richmond, VA, "Captain Withers. Will please order Surg. N.J. [sic - S.] Crowell to relieve Surg. J.J. Waring as Medical Director of District of N.C. and the latter to continue to perform the duties of Med. Purveyor. Very Respy. Your Obt. Servt. S.P. Moore, Surg. General, C.S. Army"
03/27/1862 - "Surgeon N.S. Crowell will relieve Surgeon J.J. Waring from duty as Medical Director of the Department of North Carolina. Surgeon Waring will continue to perform the duties of Medical Purveyor for said Department." (S.O. 70/12)
03/30/1862 - Granted a leave of absence (S.O. 66 Dept. of N.C. General T. H. Holmes)
04/03/1862 - In a message from the Surgeon General to the Secretary of War, "When it was known that Dr. Waring was deposed, General Holmes was requested to state if the appointment of Surg. Crowell as Med. Dir. and Surg. Brown as Med. Pur. would be acceptable" [Note: This letter is not in Dr. Waring's Compiled Service Record, only a transcription of the body of the letter.]
04/22/1862 - From Goldsboro, NC, Surgeon Waring wrote to Colonel G.J. Beall relative to charges made against him [Note: This letter is not in Dr. Waring's file, only this summary.]
05/10/1862 - Charges of misconduct were withdrawn "as he cannot be tried by general Court Martial, he never having been confirmed as Surgeon"
07/29/1864 - Claimed to have been "medical advisor to Mr. F. Brown" and signs as James J. Waring, M.D., Savannah, Georgia
01/13/1867 - Member, Board of Directors, Central Railroad and Banking Company [GA]
08/26/1868 - Expelled from the Medical Society of Savannah, Savannah, GA, for providing surety on the bonds of people of color who were charged with riotous conduct
06/15/1869 - The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed the decision of the Medical Society of Savannah and found that the Society did not have sufficient cause for the expulsion of Dr. James J. Waring and ordered the Society "to restore him to all his rights and privileges"
07/15/1870 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (lived with wife, Mary, and six children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "James J. Marring")
10/09/1871 - Elected, Alterman, Savannah, Georgia
1876 - Hastened home to Savannah, GA, from Saratoga, NY, to become chairman of a committee of the Savannah city government for carrying out sanitary reforms in the city during a yellow fever epidemic
02/16/1877 - Sought relief by the U.S. Congress from duty charged him for steam-plow machinery that he had purchased in England and had shipped to the U.S.A. Part of the machinery arrived after a new duty law went into effect.
1879 - As Chairman, Dry Culture Committee, Savannah, GA, prepared a report entitled, "The Epidemic at Savannah, 1876, Its Causes, the Measures of Prevention"
06/04/1880 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (lived with wife, Mary, three daughters, and three sons - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as James J. Waring)
1886 - Practiced medicine, Savannah, Chatham County, GA
- Leader in the improvement of public health in Savannah, GA, by promoting drainage of swamps and installation of a sewer system
01/08/1888 - Died after a long illness, Savannah, Chatham County, GA (buried: Laurel Grove Cemetery (North), Savannah, GA; Find-A-Grave #166166457 )
04/23/1915 - Widow, Mary, died of angina pectoris in Savannah, Chatham County, GA (age at death: 87 yr., 8 mo.; buried: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA; Find-A-Grave #124246730)

Note: Additional information about Dr. Waring can be found in: Biographical sketch of James Johnston Waring (1877) Biographical Record of the Class of 1850 of Yale College, prepared by the class committee and printed for the members of the class. Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor, Printers, New Haven, Co, 1877, Connecticut

This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. 01/07/2017. Updated 04/01/2022.
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James Johnston Waring, son of William Richard Waring, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania), and Ann (Johnston), and brother of Joseph Frederick Waring (Yale College 1852), was born in Savannah, Georgia, August 19, 1829.

After graduation he studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for two years and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in the spring of 1852. During the following year he was assistant resident physician of the Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia. Early in 1853 he went to Dublin, Ireland, where he was for some time resident in the Lying-in Hospital, after which he became assistant resident physician in St. Bartholomew's Hospital at London. After living in Paris seven months, and traveling in Italy and Switzerland, he returned to America and settled in 1856 as a physician in Washington, D.C.

He was elected in 1857 Professor of Physiology, and Professor of Obstetrics in the National Medical College. In 1859 ne was elected Surgeon, and Curator, of the Washington Infirmary. He had acquired an extensive practice before the breaking out of the war. In 1861 he went to Savannah to join his family, then in Savannah, and on his return was arrested with them by the Confederate authorities and sent back on parole to Savannah. During the war and since its close, he has resided in Savannah in the practice of his profession. On hearing of the yellow fever in Savannah in 1876 he hastened home from Saratoga, became Chairman of a Committee of the City Government for carrying out sanitary reforms in the city, and engaged heartily in that work. He has purchased a cottage at Saratoga, New York, for a summer residence.

He married, May 23, 1856, Miss Mary Brewton, daughter of Colonel Thomas Pinckney Alston (Yale College 1814) and has had seven children: (1) Annie Johnston, born in 1857; (2) Mary Brewton, born in 1859, died in 1865; (3) Pinckney Alston, born in 1860; (4) Helen, born in 1862; (5) James Johnston, born in 1865; (6) Thomas Pinckney, born in 1867; (7) Minna A., born in 1869. The eldest son, Pinckney Alston, has been preparing for college at the Hopkins Grammar School, in New Haven, and expects to enter Yale College this year.

SOURCE: Yale College Obituary Record