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0189: Charles Anthony Hoffman Papers, 1921-1940, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is comprised of materials, recording the achievements and honors of Dr. Charles A. Hoffman, M.D. This collection complements Accession 0094, linked in the "comments" section below. It includes personal notes about urological practices by Dr. Hoffman, the manuscript of his book, God, Man, and Medicine, and the fundraising materials used for the Dr. Charles A. Hoffman Endowment.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Dr. Charles A. "Carl" Hoffman Collection, 1921-1940 here.

0208: Thomas H. Barton Biography, 1977, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection is composed of a typescript copy of a portion (pages 74-87) of “Autobiography of Dr. Thomas H. Barton, the self-made physician of Syracuse, Ohio, including a history of the Fourth Regt. West Va. Vol. Inf’y, with an account of Col. Lightburn’s Retreat” published by Charleston, West Virginia Printing Company in 1890. The document does not cover Barton’s personal life, and only discusses his time as a doctor for his regiment in the Civil War. The autobiography discusses military matters primarily but does go into details as to a physician’s life in the camps and treatment of wounds sustained …