![]() It contains his spouse and many of his children as well as the honorable Elijah Muhammed.Įlijah John fisher Sr.’s daughter Gertrude, after attending Spelman, became the first licensed female pharmacist in Georgia. ![]() He died in 1915 and was buried in Chicago’s Mount Glenwood Cemetery, which he founded. proceeded to the pastorate of Nashville’s Spruce Street Baptist Church, refurbishing that edifice and liquidating Meharry’s debts, allowing them to remain open. Soon thereafter, Meharry Medical School was slated for closure, and Elijah John Fisher Sr. This ignored the exceptional performance of black doctors from the Leonard Medical School at Shaw University, whose students exceeded the national level for passing the state board as well as a faculty eventually absorbed as anchors for the UNC School of Medicine. When the 1910 Flexner Report recommended that all of the then 11 existing black medical schools be closed, except Howard University and Meharry Medical School, such was done. He also put his skin in the game, sending all of his children to one of these schools. ![]() was awarded an honorary doctorate degree. The loss of funding and accreditation are nothing new for HBCUs and, when such happened to the two institutions in his home county, he raised the money to keep Spelman and Morehouse open. ![]()
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