Although medicine was his chief concern, as a good citizen, Dr. Wellford had other interests. He was a "Justice of the Corporation" and a member of the commission appointed in 1849 to contract for a new Court House, and later supervised its construction. He was a partner in the great stage line known as Peck, Wellford & Company and was first president of the Fredericksburg & Gordonville Railroad.
Dr. Wellford's fame spread beyond the Rappahannock country, and justly so. In 1851 he was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia and in 1852 he was president of the American Medical Association. He was tendered a professorship in the medical department of the University of Virginia which he declined, but, when the Medical College of Virginaia became an independent school in 1854, he was named in the act of incorporation as a member of its first Board of Trustees and in the spring of that year, he was elected to and accepted the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics there. He held this position until his retirement in 1868 when he was elected Professor Emeritus. During the war he was in charge of one of the numerous Confederate hospitals in Richmond. Dr. Wellford died of apoplexy after a protracted illness on December 27, 1870.
Dr. Wellford's fame spread beyond the Rappahannock country, and justly so. In 1851 he was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia and in 1852 he was president of the American Medical Association. He was tendered a professorship in the medical department of the University of Virginia which he declined, but, when the Medical College of Virginaia became an independent school in 1854, he was named in the act of incorporation as a member of its first Board of Trustees and in the spring of that year, he was elected to and accepted the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics there. He held this position until his retirement in 1868 when he was elected Professor Emeritus. During the war he was in charge of one of the numerous Confederate hospitals in Richmond. Dr. Wellford died of apoplexy after a protracted illness on December 27, 1870.
Although medicine was his chief concern, as a good citizen, Dr. Wellford had other interests. He was a "Justice of the Corporation" and a member of the commission appointed in 1849 to contract for a new Court House, and later supervised its construction. He was a partner in the great stage line known as Peck, Wellford & Company and was first president of the Fredericksburg & Gordonville Railroad.
Dr. Wellford's fame spread beyond the Rappahannock country, and justly so. In 1851 he was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia and in 1852 he was president of the American Medical Association. He was tendered a professorship in the medical department of the University of Virginia which he declined, but, when the Medical College of Virginaia became an independent school in 1854, he was named in the act of incorporation as a member of its first Board of Trustees and in the spring of that year, he was elected to and accepted the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics there. He held this position until his retirement in 1868 when he was elected Professor Emeritus. During the war he was in charge of one of the numerous Confederate hospitals in Richmond. Dr. Wellford died of apoplexy after a protracted illness on December 27, 1870.
Dr. Wellford's fame spread beyond the Rappahannock country, and justly so. In 1851 he was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia and in 1852 he was president of the American Medical Association. He was tendered a professorship in the medical department of the University of Virginia which he declined, but, when the Medical College of Virginaia became an independent school in 1854, he was named in the act of incorporation as a member of its first Board of Trustees and in the spring of that year, he was elected to and accepted the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics there. He held this position until his retirement in 1868 when he was elected Professor Emeritus. During the war he was in charge of one of the numerous Confederate hospitals in Richmond. Dr. Wellford died of apoplexy after a protracted illness on December 27, 1870.
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