|
a.
|
Note: ton. "Feddy" was his sister's best effort to pronounce Featherston. His college career at Miss. A&M was interrupted by a year of duty in the U.S. Navy; he was stationed on a submarine chaser in Provincetown, Rhode Island and discharged in 1919. After earning a degree in chemistry in 1920 he worked at the Bureau of Standards in Washingon, D.C. then attended medical school at Tulane University from 1922 to 1926. Upon returning to Starkville, he joined his father's medical practice and informed his siblings that they were to call him Feddy instead of Bubba from then on. In 1946 he built a 20 bed hospital. He delivered an estimated 5000 to 6000 babies including 3 sets of twins in one week in the 1950s before he retired in 1985.
From Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN29001761&id=LVh5NveDjawC&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=eckford
Scientific papers of the Bureau of Standards # 451 Oct 3, 1922
By United States. National Bureau of Standards
Spectro-Photoelectric Sensitivity of Bournonite and Pyragyrite
by W. W. Coblentz and J. F. Eckford
It's the Journey That Counts
By Mable Williams Hurt
p 145: Dr. "Fetti" Eckford quarantined the family for scarlet fever
Note: "Dr. Feddy" was named for his father's stepfather, Dr. John S. Feathers
|
