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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: November 25, 2009
Caption: Medical Bag
Additional Description: Dr. Thomas Boyd Meacham (1836-1908) was a native of Jackson, Tennessee, who graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1860. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 serving as Captain of Company E in the 17th Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. The Company was reorganized in the spring of 1862 and Dr. Meacham returned to Rock Hill. After the war he opened the Fort Mill Drug Company, the first drug store in Fort Mill. He also practiced medicine in York County. He sold the drug store to J.R. Haile in 1907. He is listed on the 1860 Federal Census of York County as a physician.
Submitted: November 27, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p87320
File Size: 1.448 Megabytes

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