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Caldwell, Frank Hawkins (1S57-1906).

Frank Hawkins Caldwell was born in Rome, Georgia, August 25, 1857 at the Rome Female College, of which his father was president. He came of clerical an- cestry, for J. M. Caldwell, his father, was a native of North Carolina where his an- cestors for three generations had been Presbyterian ministers and for four generations preceding had been minis- ters in Scotland and Ireland. His mother was C. E. Sivy (Sibby) of Wolfboro, New

Hampshire, a daughter of David Thurs- ton Sivy (Sibby), M. D.

During Dr. Caldwell's early child- hood his parents were forced by the Civil War to remove to North Carolina, from which they did not return until 1871. Young Caldwell went to the University of Georgia at Athens. He studied medicine under Dr. J. B. Holmes, in 1878 matriculating from Jefferson College and graduating there in 1880.

On December 29, 1880, he married Nellie G. Word, only daughter of Dr. T. J. Word, of Rome. In March, 1882, he was appointed chief surgeon of the Florida Southern, a division of the "Plant System." He introduced what is known as the "hospital system" which was developed under his manage- ment to a high degree of efficiency. He was made chief surgeon of the entire group of railways and under his wise direction, what is known as the Hospital and Relief Department, was inaugurated. This not only provided medical and sur- gical attention in well-equipped hospitals for employes and their families but also life assurance and an endowment fund for sick and injured. In 1898 his office was removed to Waycross, Georgia, where a great central hospital was erected as a center of a system of hospitals in Georgia, Florida and Alabama, cov- ering all the lines of associated railways.

In October, 1899, after sixteen years, he resigned his position with the Plant System and soon removed to Tampa, Florida, where, after five laborious years of hospital and private practice, he died in the early days of 1906.

He was a very active member of the Georgia State Medical Association, the New York Medico-legal Association, and president of the Florida State Medical Association.

During the great yellow fever epidemic at Jacksonville he volunteered his services and was assigned charge of St. Luke's Hospital and, owing to rec- ognized executive ability, he was called to the head of the relief work of the en- tire city.