W. I. Royster (1845-1930, Raleigh, NC)
ROYSTER, Wisconsin Illinois, Raleigh, N.C., son of James Daniel and Mary Smoothley (Ashley) Royster, grandson of David Royster. was born September 24, 1845, at Raleigh, N.C. He fitted for college at Raleigh Male Academy, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, and from the spring of 1862 to the close of the war he served as an assistant in the office of the adjutant general of North Carolina. He began to read medicine in 1865, at Raleigh, under Dr. E. Burke Haywood, of that place; attended two courses of lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, N.Y., and was graduated in 1868. For ten months following Dr. Royster was physician to the private hospital of Dr. Echeverria, for the treatment of nervous diseases, Lake Mahopac, N.Y., and has been a practitioner in Raleigh since 1869. He is a member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine, of which he was president, 1878.
Dr. Royster has been professor of principles and practice of medicine in Leonard Medical School of Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., since 1885.
Married, in 1871, Miss Mary Wills, daughter of Rev. J.J. Finch of Raleigh, N.C. They have three children: Hubert Ashley, Frank Wills, and James Finch. The eldest, Hubert Ashley Royster, M.D., is now on the resident staff of the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was graduated in medicine June 7, 1894, at the University of Pennsylvania, as president of the class, receiving the medal awarded by the alumni association to the student attaining the highest marks in the examination for his degree. At Greensboro, N.C., in the examination for license to practise [sic] in his native state, he won the Appleton prize, and made the highest average ever attained before the State Board of Examiners.
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