| Abstract |
Biography of Hugh Walter Ward, born in Calvert County, Maryland in 1898 and lived there practicing medicine for 49 years, serving as Medical Examiner for 30 of those years. This book tells of his earliest recollections as a small boy, of classes and pranks during six years of prep school and college at Western Maryland College, of being plumber, barn builder and high school teacher as he worked his way through school. He shares tales of oxen use, of the University of Maryland Medical School, accidental death mystery solved by the bark off a twig, murder tracked to the county under a cement floor, adventures of delivering 5,000 babies, and development of his dream for the Medical Center at Owings. |
