BALTIMORE'S OLDEST COLORED DOCTOR DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

DOCTOR WHITFIELD WINSEY

Was Oldest Physician in The City

Doctor Whitfield Winsey, Baltimore's oldest colored physician died
at his home 1220 East Fayette Street, July 7.

Dr. Winsey was born 71 years ago in this city during the time that
the city was one of the biggest slave markets of the country. He re-
ceived his early education in private schools and latter entered the
medical school of Harvard University in Cambridge Mass.

Dr. Winsey finished Harvard in 1871, just 23 years old, and the
wrinkled diploma, with the faded signatures, that has hung in his
Fayette Street office for a number of years, bore beside the name of
ex-President Eliot, that of Oliver Wendall Holmes, the physician-poet
and admired teacher of Dr. Winsey.

Dr. Winsey was married to Anastatia Jacques, who died nearly
thirty years ago leaving two children Herbert and Moss Bertha, who

survive,

For a number of years, Dr. Winsey was instructor at Provident
Hospital and for the past 18 years treasurer and physician at the In-
dustrial Home for Colored Girls at Melvale. He was a member of the
Chirugical Association and the American Medical Association.

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