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McCaw’s family extends from 1786 to 1901, years crowded with the march of progress and the mighty sequence of great events.

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The period of time covered by the professional and social prominence of Dr.

McCaw’s death swept over the city rapidly yesterday, and great streams of sorrowing friends made their pilgrimage to the stricken household to express their sorrow and to tender their services.

At the close of the festivities his brothers of the profession presented him with a handsome loving cup, which he greatly prized up to his last hours. McCaw announced his purpose to retire from the active practice of his profession, in which he had been engaged for fifty-seven years, and was tendered a great banquet at the Commonwealth Club. McCaw was senior warden of the church, a position he had held for as much as twenty years. He has been president of the Medical Society of Virginia, president of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery, president of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, and for many years a member of the vestry of St. There are thousands of physicians and surgeons in the country to-day who will recall his kindly manner, his never-failing courtesies and the high example set by him.Īll the honors that a citizen and professional man could have wished were conferred upon Dr. He then served for twelve years as dean of the college, and at the time of his death was chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Medical College of Virginia, always taking the greatest pride in the work of the college, and never tiring in his efforts to fit the students of the institution for their life work. McCaw was elected to the chair of chemistry in the Medical College of Virginia, and later to the chair of practice. He received his early education at the Richmond Academy, and from 1837 to 1842 was employed as engineer’s assistant on the old James River and Kanawha Canal, taking up later the study of medicine at the New York University, under Dr. McCaw was a native of this city, having been born here in 1823. McCaw, surgeon in the United States Navy, stationed in Washington.ĭr. Charles Davenport, of this city, and Mrs. Christopher Tompkins, wife of the dean of the Medical College of Virginia Mrs. McCaw recalled that the lady was an acquaintance of his youth, and when he saw her sitting, almost blind, he obtained a handsome bouquet, and walking up to where she was seated, said: “I trust you will accept the compliments of a friend of your youth, who recalls very pleasant days when we attended a dancing school in this city in 1840.” The lady was agreeably surprised, and for several hours they talked over incidents of their youth.ĭr. The lady was a few years his senior, and now her sight is poor.

Within a month or six weeks he was thrown in company with a lady whom he knew when he was a young man in his teens. He was at the head of a great profession in a great city, and was at once the highest type of the old Virginia gentleman. No man in Richmond was more widely beloved than Dr. The distinguished citizen and physician was the victim of no malady he simply reached his end as a result of the infirmities of age, and when he breathed his last, it was all calm and peaceful. He was eighty-three years of age, but notwithstanding this fact, he was conscious up to the hour of his death, recognizing the members of his family and friends to the last. McCaw had been in ill health for some months, he was not taken dangerously sick until some ten days ago at Basic City, from which place he was brought here for treatment. Paul’s Church at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon, and the interment will be in Hollywood. 116 East Franklin Street, at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. McCaw, very probably the oldest medical physician in Richmond and one of the city’s most prominent and distinguished citizens, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Retiring from Active Practice in 1901, He Still Retained Positions of Trust – His Life History Filled With Interesting Events.

Oldest and one of the Best Beloved Physicians of Richmond, Who Passed Away Early Yesterday Morningĭistinguished Physician of Richmond Dies at Ripe Old Age.

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