William W. Lane (1831-1901, Wilmington, NC)
LANE, William Walter, Wilmington, N.C., son of Levin and Margaret Moore (Hill) Lane, grandson of Ezekiel Lane, was born August 12, 1831, at Wrightsville, near Wilmington, N.C. He was educated at the Wilmington High school, St. Timothy's Hall at Catonsville, Md., and at the University of North Carolina, from which he was graduated A.B. in 1852, and subsequently received the degree of A.M. He commenced the study of medicine in 1852, at Greenville, N.C., under Dr. Edward H. Goelet of that place; and Dr. James F. McRee, of Wilmington; attended two courses of lectures at the University of the City of New York, Medical Department, and was graduated in 1855. He spent the year 1856 in medical observation in the hospitals of Paris, France; served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate army, 1862 to 1865. After graduating he traveled through Europe, visiting the principal hospitals. Returning to the United States he became a cotton planter in the Mississippi valley.
Dr. Lane first located in the practice of medicine at Wilmington, N.C., in 1855, and in 1857 removed to Washington, D.C., where he remained until 1858, and then settled in Sunflower county, Miss. In 1870 he returned to Wilmington, his present location.
Dr. Lane is a member, and in 1878 was president, of the Wilmington Medical Society; member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; city physician; alumnus of Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina; and member of the Wilmington Library Association. He was surgeon of the U.S. Marine Hospital at Wilmington, N.C., from 1875 to 1879, and has performed most of the important surgical operations, reporting such from time to time in the North Carolina Medical Journal. Superintendent and surgeon in charge of Wilmington City Hospital since its organization in 1881. Member of National Association of Railway Surgeons; surgeon of Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company.
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