African American Physician born in North Carolina and moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Employed in 1 Jul 1891 as a Drug Clerk at the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Freedman's Hospital in Washington D.C. No one knows who his parents were. He was Married to Bertha, maiden name unknown, burial unknown at this time. It is uncertain if there is a marker erected for Ellis.
African American Physician born in North Carolina and moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Employed in 1 Jul 1891 as a Drug Clerk at the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Freedman's Hospital in Washington D.C. No one knows who his parents were. He was Married to Bertha, maiden name unknown, burial unknown at this time. It is uncertain if there is a marker erected for Ellis.
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DR. ELLIS WHEDEE, PHYSICIAN, CO-FOUNDED THE LOUISVILLE RED CROSS HOSPITAL IN 1899. THE HOSPITAL PROVIDED CARE TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
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