{"id":2214,"date":"2013-06-24T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:54:26","slug":"williams-ralph-chester-1888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2214","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, RALPH CHESTER, 1888-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician; medical administrator. Born&#8211; July 24, 1888, in Uchee, Russell County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Arthur R. and Susan (Tatum) Williams. Married&#8211; Annie Worrill Perry, February 26, 1913. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; University of Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, M.D., 1910. Practiced in Madison and Russell Counties until 1916. U.S. Public Health Service, Colorado, mine rescue work; served in Chicago, New Orleans and Tampico, Mexico, for treatment of bubonic plague victims; Phoenix; Washington, D.C., 1917-. On staff, Surgeon General of the United States, as editor Weekly Public Health Report. Chief Medical Officer, Farm Security Administration; Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service. Chief, Georgia Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities Construction Program (Hill-Burton Hospital Program). Died December 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fiftieth Anniversary of Ralph Chester Williams and Annie Worrill Perry, February 26, 1913-February 16, 1963; Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States Public Health Service, 1798-1950. Washington, D.C.; Commissioned Officers Association of the United States Public Health Service, 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nursing Home Management. New York; F. W. Dodge, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician; medical administrator. Born&#8211; July 24, 1888, in Uchee, Russell County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Arthur R. and Susan (Tatum) Williams. Married&#8211; Annie Worrill Perry, February 26, 1913. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; University of Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, M.D., 1910. Practiced in Madison and Russell Counties until 1916. U.S. Public Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}