Henry Morgan Green | |
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![]() Green in 1910 | |
Born | 1877
Adairsville,
Georgia, U.S. |
Died | March 19, 1939 |
Other names | H. M. Green |
Alma mater |
Knoxville College, University of Michigan, Northwestern University |
Occupations |
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Spouse | Henri Henderson |
Children | 2 |
Henry Morgan Green (1877–1939) was an American physician, a national healthcare leader, [1] researcher, scholar, real estate investor, and alderman. [2] He served as the city physician in Knoxville, Tennessee, and president of the National Medical Association. [3] He was one of the founders of Knoxville Medical College; [4] and is credited with expanding healthcare coverage for the Black community in Knoxville. [1]
Henry Morgan Green was born in 1877 in Adairsville, Georgia. [3] [5] Green studied at the Normal School at Knoxville College, where he graduated (1895). [3] [6]
After a year of teaching in Riceville, Tennessee, he returned a year later to Knoxville College to attend the college's newly established medical department. [7] [6] Green continued studies at the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University.[ when?] [3]
He had an early medical practice in Jellico, Tennessee. [8] For 17 years he served as the city physician in Knoxville, Tennessee; and worked as a doctor in Knoxville from 1900 to 1939. [3] [4] Green was one of the founders of Knoxville Medical College (1900–1910). [4] [9]
In 1900, Green became an alderman (or council member) in order to represent his neighborhood in the fifth ward, he was the first Black alderman in the city. [2] He remained an alderman until 1912, and it took another 62 years before the Knoxville city council had another Black alderman. [10] [11] [12] In 1910 and 1911, Green served as the chairman of the "Colored Department" at the Appalachian Exposition, held in Knoxville. [13]
He served as president of the National Medical Association, elected in 1922; [7] [14] and was the founding president of the National Hospital Association in 1923. [3] [4]
In 1922, Green married school teacher Henri Henderson; and together they had two children. [3] [8]
He died of pneumonia on March 19, 1939, in Knoxville. [8] He is buried on the campus of Knoxville College, in the Freedmen's Mission Historic Cemetery (formerly known as the Fourth United Presbyterian Church Cemetery). [15]
The Green School (sometimes refer to as the "Colored High School" in the early years) in Knoxville was named for him, and opened in 1909. [5] [16] Green was profiled in the book, The Knoxville Negro: Emphasizing the Great Era of Progress Prevalent in Negro Knoxville Today (1929) by Bartow G. Wilson. [17]