Philip C. Williams

Philip C. Williams was born near Winchester, Virginia on August 15, 1828. He was educated at Winchester Academy and attended lectures at the University of Maryland and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1850. From 1851 to 1853, he spent time in Europe.

In 1854, when he returned to the States, be became an attending physician at the Baltimore General Dispensary, and from 1857-60, he was a physician at the Baltimore County Almshouse. Williams became the president of the Baltimore Medical Association from 1867-68, and was a founder and President of the Clinical Society of Maryland from 1873-75.

Williams was President of the Faculty in 1872-73 and then Vice-President of the Faculty in 1876-77, which is reversed from the usual order. He was also President of the Pathological Society of Baltimore from 1873-74.

Philip Williams died in Baltimore on November 21, 1896.