Mental health

by Smiley, David L. Dorothea Dix by David L. Smiley Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 1996; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, June 2023 Tar Heel Junior [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by McKown, Harry W., Jr. Dorothea Dix Hospital by Harry McKown UNC - North Carolina Collection, 2006; Revised by NC Government & Heritage Library, June 2022; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, June [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Bullock, J. Marshall. Edward Carrington Fisher, physician and hospital administrator, was a native of Richmond, Va., and one of ten children born to Ann Ambler and George Fisher. His aunt, Mary Willis Ambler, was the wife [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Cecelski, David S. Denise Giles has come a long way since the days when she was homeless in Fayetteville and peddling her own blood to buy groceries. Getting off the streets and out of 18 years of alcoholism, she [...] (from Listening to History, News and Observer.)

by Yearns, W. Buck. Eugene Grissom, physician and psychiatrist, was born near Wilton in Granville County, one of seventeen children of Wiley Hawes and Mary Bobbitt Grissom. His grandfather had changed the family name [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Macnicholas, John. James King Hall, psychiatrist, was born in Iredell County, near Statesville, the son of Dr. Eugenius Alexander and Amanda McCullough Howard Hall. Eugenius Alexander's ancestral line derives from [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Cotten, Alice R. McBee, Vardry by Alice R. Cotten, 1991 19 June 1775–23 Jan. 1864 Vardry McBee, merchant, farmer, and clerk of county court, was born in Spartanburg District, S.C., the son of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Mauskopf, Seymour H. McDougall, William by Seymour H. Mauskopf, 1991 22 June 1871–28 Nov. 1938 William McDougall, psychologist, was born in Lancashire, England, the son of Rebekah Smalley and Isaac Shimwell [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Hatcher, Susan Tucker. John Fulenwider Miller, physician, was born in Rutherford (now Cleveland) County of Scot-Irish descent. His father, William John Twitty Miller, was a prominent physician and planter who served in the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Milner, Susan. Patrick Livingston Murphy, psychiatrist, served for almost twenty-five years as superintendent of the Western North Carolina Hospital in Morganton. He was the son of a wealthy Sampson County couple, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Finlator, W. W. The North Carolina Conference for Social Service was formed in 1912, when a body of socially conscious men and women recognized that little attention was being paid to many disadvantaged North [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Anthony, Robert G., Jr., Homrighaus, Ruth E., Montgomery, J. Field, Jr. Psychiatric Hospitals by Robert G. Anthony Jr. and Ruth E. Homrighaus, 2006; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, June 2023 Additional research provided by J. Field Montgomery [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Joseph Banks Rhine, psychologist, parapsychologist, and university professor, was born in Waterloo, Pa., the son of Samuel Ellis and Elizabeth Ellen Vaughan Rhine. He spent a part of his youth in [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by McKown, Harry W., Jr. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiter shaft, flames reached [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Pleasants, Julian M. John Wesley Umstead, Jr., legislator and advocate of education and mental health, was born in Durham County, the son of John Wesley, a Confederate veteran, farmer, and politician, and Lulie Elizabeth [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. David Alexander Young, psychiatrist and hospital administrator, was born in Raleigh, the son of James Richard and Virginia Nicholls Young. His father, of Vance County, was North Carolina's first [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)