Dewell GannAge: 86 years1859–1945
- Name
- Dewell Gann
- Given names
- Dewell
- Surname
- Gann
![]() | March 31, 1859 34 39 |
![]() | Greenberry Gann April 20, 1860 (Age 12 months) |
![]() | Daniel Gann 1864 (Age 4 years) |
![]() | Julia Gann February 1866 (Age 6 years) |
![]() | Edmund Uriah Gann April 11, 1867 (Age 8 years) |
![]() | Martha Harding Whithorne — View this family September 4, 1889 (Age 30 years) |
![]() #1 | Dewell Gann September 14, 1890 (Age 31 years) |
![]() #2 | Irl Gann February 7, 1893 (Age 33 years) |
![]() | Frances … March 24, 1909 (Age 49 years) |
![]() | Martha A. Gann May 14, 1922 (Age 63 years) |
![]() | Irl Gann October 27, 1927 (Age 68 years) |
![]() | Nancy Caledonia (Callie) Gann May 23, 1938 (Age 79 years) |
![]() | Martha Harding Whithorne January 9, 1940 (Age 80 years) |
![]() | Greenberry Gann February 24, 1944 (Age 84 years) |
![]() | September 25, 1945 (Age 86 years) |
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Family with parents |
father |
Edmund Uriah Gann Birth: February 13, 1825 — Clarke Co, GA Death: April 11, 1867 — Cobb Co, GA |
mother |
Frances … Birth: January 11, 1820 — GA Death: March 24, 1909 — Cobb Co, GA |
elder sister |
Martha A. Gann Birth: October 19, 1851 26 31 — Cobb Co, GA Death: May 14, 1922 — Frisco, Collin County, Texas |
21 months elder sister |
Nancy Caledonia (Callie) Gann Birth: July 27, 1853 28 33 — Cobb Co, GA Death: May 23, 1938 — Ashburn, GA |
2 years elder sister |
Marietta A. (Missy) Gann Birth: 1855 29 34 — Cobb Co, GA Death: |
3 years elder sister |
Susan Almeda J. Gann Birth: 1857 31 36 — Cobb Co, GA Death: |
2 years himself |
Dewell Gann Birth: March 31, 1859 34 39 — Cobb Co, GA Death: September 25, 1945 — Benton, Saline Co, AR |
13 months younger brother |
Greenberry Gann Birth: April 20, 1860 35 40 — GA Death: February 24, 1944 |
6 years younger sister |
Julia Gann Birth: February 1866 40 46 — GA Death: |
-13 months younger brother |
Daniel Gann Birth: 1864 38 43 Death: |
Family with Martha Harding Whithorne |
himself |
Dewell Gann Birth: March 31, 1859 34 39 — Cobb Co, GA Death: September 25, 1945 — Benton, Saline Co, AR |
wife |
Martha Harding Whithorne Birth: Shelbyville, TN Death: January 9, 1940 — Benton, Saline Co, AR |
Marriage: September 4, 1889 — Benton, Saline Co, AR |
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1 year son |
Dewell Gann Birth: September 14, 1890 31 — Benton, Saline Co, AR Death: January 11, 1960 — AR |
2 years daughter |
Irl Gann Birth: February 7, 1893 33 — Benton, Saline Co, AR Death: October 27, 1927 |
Note | Dewell Gann attended Emory University in Atlanta where he received a medical degree on March 31, 1886, his 27th birthday. After graduating he attended medical school in New York where he specialized in surgery. In the summer of 1888, he moved to Arkansas and settled at Sheridan, Grant County, where he opened a practice. In later years, Dr. Gann said the shortage of doctors was the reason he came to Arkansas. He operated his practice in Sheridan for two years before moving to Benton in 1890. At first he operated his medical practice from his home. Later some of his poorer patients, unable to pay their bills, offered to build an office for him. The office was built of bauxite and completed in 1893. It is now the Gann Museum in Benton, AR. He founded the Saline County Medical Society in 1903; there were two members. By 1941 he had delivered more than 3,000 babies without losing a mother--a notable accomplishment considering the medical conditions at that time. He owned the first car in Benton, the first indoor bathroom and the first telephone; his telephone number was 2, the operator was 1. At the presentation of his father's former medical office to the city of Benton for a library in 1948, Dr. Dewell, Jr., described his father's early days in Benton, "In those days wages were 10 cents an hour, and the doctor frequently accepted labor, cows, chickens, and wild honey in return for his work. Ten dollars was the usual fee for a horse and buggy drive and the presentation of an heir." He was buried in Gann Family Mausoleum. From Joy Gann Brown, Hillsborough, NC. |