James Francis Shober was born on this date in 1853. He was an African American doctor and the first Black physician in North Carolina. He was born in Salem (now Winston-Salem), N. C., possibly to Francis Edwin Shober, who was of the Salem Moravian Community, a successful politician and businessman, who served in the state […]
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