Wysor, John C. (John Chandler), 1854-1919
Biographical Note
John Chandler Wysor (sometimes John C. D. Wysor) was born to George Washington and Margaret Ann Wysor on May 12, 1854, in Pulaski County, Virginia. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore (now the University of Maryland School of Medicine). He was a physician and the chief surgeon at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Hospital and later went into private practice in Clifton Forge, Virginia. He also served on the City Council and the local Y.M.C.A. board and worked for the Red Cross.
Wysor married Alice E. Pugh (1859-1947) on August 27, 1884, and their children include Julia and Frank. He died on February 23, 1919.
External Sources:
U.S. Federal Census, 1860-1870, 1900.
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"Alice A. Pugh Wysor", FindAGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38065949/alice_a_wysor, accessed May 3, 2024.
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"J C Wysor" in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/525298:2538, accessed May 16, 2024.
"Dr. John C. Wysor Dies", Richmond times-dispatch (Richmond, Va.), Feb. 24, 1919, p. 4., available online at the Library of Congress's Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1919-02-24/ed-1/seq-4/, accessed May 16, 2024.
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John C. Wysor Letter
The John C. Wysor Letter is a letter from physician John C. Wysor (1854-1919) in Clifton Forge, Virginia to his brother Henry C. Wysor, in Dublin, Virginia, written on May 3, 1912. The letter details one of John C. Wysor's patient's medical payments.