Wellford, Dr. Robert

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Box P2, Item 870

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From the Company of Surgeons of London, 1776: Dr. Wellford came to America as a surgeon in the British army, and later settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His son, Dr. Beverley Randolph Wellford, moved to Richmond, and in 1853 became president of the American Medical Association. His grandsons, John S. Wellford, and Armistead N. Wellford, were also leading Richmond physicians in the last half of the 19th century.

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