Otho Clement Wright collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Library
James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
Contact for questions and access:
POC: SCA Staff
Phone: (804) 828-1108
Fax: (804) 828-0151
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

Otho Clement Wright Collection, Accession #2005/Apr/09, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet 2 items
Creator:
Wright, Otho Clement, 1867-1915
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Otho Clement Wright Collection, Accession #2005/Apr/09, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of the two medical ledgers (1896-1898, 1900-1905) used in Wright's practice. The ledgers list business transactions with patients. A typical entry will include a date, a brief description of the service performed, and a dollar amount of the service. The collection does not contain any personal or other professional information.

Medical office ledgers listing business transactions with patients. A typical entry will include a date, a brief description of the service performed, and a dollar amount of the service.

Biographical / historical:

A member and president of the Medical Society of Virginia in 1911, a founder and former president of the Southside Virginia Medical Association, and the Seaboard Medical Association, Otho Clement Wright was a well known and active physician in Southside Virginia. Wright served on the State Board of Medical Examiners as the hygiene, preventative medicine and medical jurisprudence examiner. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, the first hospital in the nation exclusively for mental illness. Born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia on 29 September 1867, Wright attended medical school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore graduating in 1893, later to become the Medical School of the University of Maryland. He established his practice in Jarratt, Virginia a town along the railroad south of Petersburg. There he was active in community functions and was President of the Bank of Jarratt. He died on 08 July 1915, when his automobile was struck by a train.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Otho C. W. Fraher.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in chronological order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard