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A Short History of the Howard University College of Medicine by Sterling M. Lloyd, Jr. Associate Dean for Administration and Planning (May 2006)

'Howard University has also been noted for educating individuals from the West Indies and Africa for the medical profession.  Charles W. T. Smith from Bermuda graduated in 1872. The first Caribbean student to graduate was Eliezer Clark from Barbados, who finished in the Class of 1874.  Thomas D. Campbell from Liberia graduated in 1890.'

[My research shows that Arthur Theophilus COOPER of Jamaica graduated in 1890 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery; I still hope, and even expect, to find a Jamaican graduate before that date. The first Jamaican to graduate as a Doctor of Medicine was apparently Tomlin Augustus CAMPBELL in 1901; he had previously graduated as a dental surgeon in 1897]



click on underlined names for more information; actually try any name - some of the links are not showing up!!

. . . and before that! 

In 1887 Henry H Kell[e]y, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1854, graduated from the Pharmaceutical College, where he studied from 1885 to 1887, as a Phar. D. He was then employed by the Pullman Palace Car Co.; he was married and living at 1213 Sixteenth street, N.W., Washington, D.C.


Graduates
- 1890s

1890 Arthur Theophilus COOPER D.D.S.


1895 Alfred T CLARKE Theol Dip


1897 Tomlin Augustus CAMPBELL D.D.S.


1899 Samuel Ernest GALE D.D.S.

         Joseph Evan THOMAS M.D.

        Robert Grier WALKER D.D.S.




a biology class at Howard in 1900

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