Harriett Gaston
Credit: Penn State
May 28, 2025
ALTOONA, Pa. — Harriett Gaston, an academic adviser at Penn State Altoona, will give a lecture about surgeon Daniel Hale Williams at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, at the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library.
Williams was born in 1856 in Hollidaysburg where he lived until he was 9 years old. He graduated from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and in 1891 founded Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first interracial hospital in the United States. In 1893, he performed the first successful open-heart surgery.
Gaston will provide details on Williams’ life in Hollidaysburg and his contributions to the medical field.
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