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Welcome Turner Jones

1865–1940

United States

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Welcome Turner Jones (November 13, 1865 – January 12, 1940) was an American physician, who founded with three other African-American physicians the first black hospital in Newport News, Virginia. The hospital later became the Whittaker Memorial Hospital.

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