Obstetrician
Centurion, 1879–1903
Born 21 November 1831 in Edisto Island, South Carolina
Died 28 February 1903 in Thomasville, Georgia
Buried Southampton Cemetery
, Southampton, New York
Proposed by Fessenden Nott Otis and Gilbert M. Speir (may refer to Gilbert M. Speir or Gilbert M. Speir Jr.)
Elected 7 December 1879 at age forty-eight
Century Memorial
Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas was a native of South Carolina and a graduate of the Charleston Medical College in 1852—at the age of twenty. He came promptly to New York and after the tough struggle that seems the almost invariable test undergone by strong men in his profession, he entered upon a career here that was long and prosperous. His first connection with the teaching of medicine was as Professor of Auscultation and Percussion in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, whence he went to take the Chair of Obstetrics and, later, of Gynæcology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which he retained to the time of his retirement from active work. Apart from his professional ability, which was widely recognized, Dr. Thomas won the cordial appreciation of his colleagues and of a large social circle for his many attractive qualities. He was a pioneer in the establishment of the vogue of Southampton as a summer resort and his home there was the first of those of the numerous colony in which the Century is so largely represented.
Edward Cary
1904 Century Association Yearbook
