Henry Morgan Green

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
Green in 1910
Born1877
Adairsville, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMarch 19, 1939
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Other namesH. M. Green
Alma materKnoxville College,
University of Michigan,
Northwestern University
Occupation(s)Physician, a national healthcare leader, scholar, real estate investor, alderman
SpouseHenri Henderson
Children2

Early life and education
Appalachian Exposition's Negro Building (1910); Green served as the chairman of the "Colored Department" during the event
Appalachian Exposition's Negro Building (1910); Green served as the chairman of the "Colored Department" during the event

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.[3]

Career

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]

Death and legacy

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]

See also

References
  1. "Black historian, Joe Valentine, shows the impact Black figures from Knoxville made throughout history". WBIR. February 11, 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. "Hard Problems for New City Officials". Knoxville Sentinel. 1908-01-25. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. Wilson, Bartow G. (June 1929). The Knoxville Negro: Emphasizing the Great Era of Progress Prevalent in Negro Knoxville Today. pp. 19–20. Retrieved 2023-04-07 – via Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection.
  4. "Dr. Henry Morgan Green". James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.
  5. Zimmerman, Elena Irish (1998-06-01). Knoxville, Tennessee. Arcadia Publishing. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7385-8987-9.
  6. "Knoxville College had white grads in early days". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2016-12-27. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  7. Booker, Robert (2012-02-14). "City boasts long roll of black achievers". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  8. "Illness Ends Long Career of Service by Dr Green". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 1939-03-20. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  9. Watson, Wilbur (2017-12-02). Against the Odds: Blacks in the Profession of Medicine in the United States. Routledge. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-351-53334-8.
  10. "Black Knoxvillians elected Dr. Presnell as 'Bronze Mayor'". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2022-10-16. pp. E2. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  11. "The History of Black City Council Members". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2017-10-30. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  12. "A Century Born". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2012-01-29. pp. S2–S3, S4. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  13. "Colored Department, Exponent of Progress of Negros". Knoxville Sentinel. 1910-09-06. p. 36. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  14. Williams, Richard Allen (2020). Blacks in Medicine: Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations. Springer Nature. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9783030419608.
  15. "Honoring burial site". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2009-09-29. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  16. "Schools didn't teach about black leaders". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. 2017-01-24. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  17. Booker, Robert (2007-01-23). "Book named prominent blacks". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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