Charles Burleigh Purvis

Name

Charles Burleigh Purvis

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First Name

Charles

Additional Names

Burleigh (middle name)

Last Name

Purvis

Born

14 August 1842

Died

14 December 1929

Parents

Harriet Forten Purvis

Robert Purvis

Profession

Medical Doctor
Professor

Note

Named after Charles Calistus Burleigh.
First Black man to get a medical degree at Western Reserve
Photo data - By William J. Simmons - Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. No. 247. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p690-693, Public Domain,

Link to Wikimedia Commons for photo

Associated Causes

Abolition