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Daniel Hale Williams was a Black physician whose boyhood home stood here. He pioneered successful heart surgery in 1893, founded Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, served as chief surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, DC, from 1894 to 1898, and became a charter member of the College of Surgeons in 1913.
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Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania · United States
