The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
j. HOWELL WAY, N. D,
One Of North Cardinals Most
Successful and Dis tin
guished Physicians,
A Conservation In
the Progress
of hisCom-
munity
A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
MAN
And Pfoninaat For Number OF Years In the
State Medical Society," and Now
Member Of the State Board
OF Medical Ex-

Prc-Cmincnt among Waynesyille's sue
cesslul physicians and business men IS
Or. j Howell Way, at present the eN-
aininer in anatomy and member OF the
State Board Of Medical Examiners Al
ter taking the highest honors Of his class
al the old medical college of Virginia he
mace the highest grade among the fifty
three applicants for State license at the
session Of the North Carolina State
Board Of Medical Examiners at AShc-
Vile IN 1880 Subsequently he was
graduated from Vanderbilt University
and located. at Waynesvllle, where ms
professional and business hfe has been
intimately aud usefully idenuhed with
the growth and development of the
fouriShing ana beautiful city. When "A
student he manifested strong taste for
science and in the meantime Lc took u ~
hy the forelock aud began the study Of
medicine, cut OF which grew broader
IDEAS. finer conception ard Il more ac-
tive public spirit.
l)r. Way has been most active mem
ben t,f the State Medical Society, taking
deep interest in ail questions pertain
Eg 20 6 advancement and CndCayCiing
To promote them Iic has held nearly
every position within the gift Of the
society and 10y industry and diligent
attention to is Iir SIS Las
cndeared hinself t. ia" Il edical !ra-
ternity throughout the Stare. lie Is
also member of the American Medical
association.
DR. Way is a prominent secret society
nran, beng IA very bright Mason, Ply
THAN and especially interested in the
Royal Arcanum. Of which he has been
Grand Secretary for North Carolina for
the past four years, and the representa-
tive of this State in the Supreme COun-
ell of the Order for the past six years.
Ills life is pre-eminently a busy and use
full one but he does not neglect men
tai recreation and Improvement and has
kept up his early acquaintance with
literature, attmbuting much of the fresh
ness of his mind and health TO books.
He has the happy faculty of always
putting business out of his mind, when
the hour for business was past. He has
one among the handsomest OF Offices and
largest professional libraries TO he found
in the Stat, Of which he
has always been an omniver-
Gus reader regarding the medical
works as among the most delightful
companions OF his life. He is now build
ing a very handsome and commOdious
brick residence in one of the most at
tractive situations in surprisingly beau
tiful Waynesville He has large con-
sultng practice and R the leading sur
geon of the section-ts frequent COLI
tFibutor to the literatprc of the medical
profession.
The career Of DR. Way teaches a les
son to be remembered by those who pro-
pose defeating thelr Lives to the study
of medicine. and illustrates the fact that
there is no profess rn n This country Il ct
does not offer distinguished honor and
reward to those who seek them with
steady purpose and determined energy,
such as has characterized his life.