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Summary

B&O Doctors & Nurses circa 1924: Dr. Levin West, Dr. Harry Slicer Hedges, Mrs. Suter, Manager RC Davis, Mrs. Crim, Mrs. Nicodemus

Railroad work was dangerous.

(Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)

Donna Lyn Phillips: Have learned some interesting facts about Doc. Hedges and wanted to share them with you. Harry Slicer Hedges ,( middle name Slicer, was from relative by the name, Henry Slicer born March 3, 1801, died April 20, 1874, who was a Methodist minister, and served as Chaplain of the Senate for 3 separate terms. So that's where the name Slicer comes from. It wasn't a slang nickname because he was a surgeon.

Harry Slicer Hedges son of Rev. John W. Hedges and Mary Clark ( Lightner) Hedges, was reared in the city of Baltimore and on the old Hedges homestead in Berkeley Springs, W.V. He was educated in public school and then at Dickerson Seminary, in Williamsport, PA. Then in 1883, he graduated from

Univ. of Md. School of Medicine and out of a class of 108, he was the youngest. He practices medicine in W.V. for 11 years before moving to Brunswick, Md. at the Emergency Hospital for the B&O, next door to the old YMCA. That's all the information I was able to research on him. Peter, you were right, it was his middle, given name!

Univ. of Md. School of Medicine and out of a class of 108, he was the youngest. He practiced medicine in Morsefield, W.V., for 11 years before moving to Brunswick, at the Emergency Hospital connected to the old YMCA.