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Guide for Residency Programs in Family Practice (1972); and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Clinical Scholars Program Report” (June 1990).
Harrell, Henry Lytle, Sr., M.D. (1908-2003)
1957, 1986-1987
1 slim document case
Henry L. Harrell, Sr., M.D. was born in 1908 in Woodbury, Tennessee. He graduated from
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with an A.B. in 1930 and an M.D. in 1934, and
completed an internship at Duval County Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Following this, he served
for two years as the medical doctor for a lumber camp near Dade City, Florida. In 1939, Dr. Harrell
established a practice in Ocala, where he remained in practice until his retirement in 1984. From
1941-1945, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and was shipped to Europe in 1944. He was
waiting to be shipped to the Pacific front when V-J Day occurred. Following the war, he became a
charter member of the AAGP in 1947 and helped establish the Florida Academy, serving as president
of the FAGP in 1957-1958 and as chairman of the First Annual FAGP Scientific Assembly. He was
named an AAFP Fellow in 1972. Dr. Harrell also organized the first volunteer clinic to treat the
indigent in Marion County, Florida and was a member of the original committee of seventeen that
organized Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Florida. He died in 2003 in Ocala.
Dr. Harrell’s collection consists of a biography from the President’s Page of the Journal of the
Florida Academy of General Practice while Dr. Harrell was president, an article he wrote about
physician retirement, and a copy of his memoir, The Sounding Furrows (1986).
Higgins, Robert W., M.D., R.Adm., USN (1934- )
(1979-1986, 1997)
2 boxes – See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Photograph Collection
A native of Uniontown in Washington State, Dr. Robert W. Higgins attended the public schools in
Pullman, Washington, and received a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Washington State University in
1957. After practicing pharmacy for five years, he enrolled in the University of Washington School
of Medicine and received his M.D. in 1965. In 1966, he was drafted into the US Navy and served in
Vietnam and at Moffett Field, California, and afterwards went into private practice in Wenatchee,
Washington. In 1972, Dr. Higgins left private practice to return to active duty in the Navy. After a
distinguished career which included duty assignments as the medical officer of the Marine Corps and
as deputy surgeon of the Navy, Dr. Higgins retired from the Navy in 1993 with the rank of rear
admiral.
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