Joseph H. Way (1865-1927, Waynesville, NC)
WAY, Joseph Howell, Waynesville, N.C., born November 22, 1865, at Waco, Texas, is the son of Charles Burr and Martha Julia (Howell) Way, grandson of Col. John Whitehead Osgood Way of Sumter District, S.C., whose father, Joseph Way, was one of Sumter's veterans in the war for American independence. He never attended school, but received his entire preliminary education at home under his father's instruction; commenced the study of medicine in 1882, at Asheville, N.C., under Dr. William L. Hilliard, of that place. He attended lectures at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, passed the examination, and was licensed to practice by the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners in August, 1885; then attended lectures at Vanderbilt University, and was graduated February 26, 1886. On March 18 following, Dr. Way entered upon the practice of medicine in Waynesville, his present location. He is a member of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, in 1888 was chairman of its section in materia medica and therapeutics, annual essayist in 1883, first vice-president in 1894, and was also one of its delegates to the meeting of the American Medical Association in 1892; member of the Ninth International Medical Congress; superintendent of health, Haywood county, since 1890; past master A.F. & A.M.; past chancellor K.P., etc.; past grand regent of the Royal Arcanum in North Carolina; supervising medical examiner for the order of Chosen Friends in the states of North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina; member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Dr. Way's first published paper was a "Report of a Case of Poisoning from the Hypodermatic Use of Cocaine Muriate," Philadelphia Medical News, 1887; "Value of Acetanilid in Enteric Fever," ibid., 1888; "Report of a Laparotomy for Acute Intestinal Obstruction, with recovery," ibid., 1888; "Ovulation without Menstruation," Nashville Medical News, 1887; "Traumatic Sympathetic Ophthalmia," N.C. Medical Journal, 1887; "A Death from Phlegmonous Tonsilitis," N.Y. Medical Record, 1888; "A Plea for the more General Use of Chloroform in Non-Operative Cases of Obstetrics," Transactions of the North Carolina Medical Society, 1891; "The Abuse of Ergot in Obstetric Practice," ibid., 1893; chairman's report on "Materia Medica," ibid., 1887; "Some Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Milk-Sickness," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1893.
Dr. Way married, July 3, 1888, Miss Marietta Welch, of Waynesville. Their two children are: Hilda and Joseph Howell, Jr.
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