AUGUSTUS NATHANIEL LUSHINGTON

Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was born in August 1, 1869. He became the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. He practiced two years in Philadelphia, PA then served as an instructor in Veterinary Sanitation and Hygiene at Bell Mead Industrial and Agricultural College at Rock Castle, Virginia. Later, he resigned and returned to a practice located in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was known for the proficient, high-class scientific service maintained in his practice in the Lynchburg area.

THEODORE SHIELDS WILLIAMS

Theodore Shields Williams was born in Kansas City, Kansas on June 2, 1911. He earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) from Kansas State University in 1935 and a Master of Science in 1946 from Iowa State University. Dr. Williams served as College Veterinarian for Prairie View State College in 1936. Between 1936 to 1945, he served as Veterinarian Inspector of the Meat Inspection Division for the U.S.D.A. (United States Department of Agriculture). Theodore Williams was appointed head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee Institute, from 1945-1951, and Dean, between 1947 to 1972. Dr. Williams served as a Professor of Pathology and Parasitology for the School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee, Alabama, from 1945 until his retirement in 1981. Dr. Williams’s area of research dealt with pathological lesions associated with tissue invading migratory parasites in animals.