Augustus Nathaniel Lushington
Deceased Person
1869 – 1939
Who was Augustus Nathaniel Lushington?
August Nathaniel Lushington, became the first African American to earn Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. He practiced about two years in Philadelphia and worked as an instructor in Veterinary Sanitation and Hygiene at Bell Mead Industrial and Agricultural College at Rock Castle, West Virginia. Later, he practiced for much of his career life in very segregated Lynchburg, Virginia, where he experienced unfair treatment, but he finally earned a reputation as a superior practitioner in the community. He had memberships in the Statistical reporter to the Bureau of Animal Industry, Federal Department Agriculture, and the Lychburg Chamber of Commerce.
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- Born
- Aug 1, 1869
Trinidad and Tobago - Education
- Cornell University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Died
- Feb 12, 1939
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on July 23, 2013
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