The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-15
DEATH OF DR. MEANS.
Prominent Citizen and Distinguished southsrner Passed Aay at 10:4o
 O'clock Last Might.

xfoml0e0t VlLlEon 8o0 NSsssA8 ~Asss~~s southsrner Passed Aay at 10:4o O'Clock Last Night.
 cr. Thomas Alexander Means died at his late residence, 32l Clayton Street, at lo:l5 o'clock last night, after an illness of several days duration pr. Means had been . sufferer for some time. and layt Thursday he became bedridden. His condition rapidly grew
 worse until the end came.
 Dr. Means was one of the pest known physicians in Alabams. He was sorn s, in Coyington. Ca. October Il. 1881, and was s son of pr. Alexander Means of Oxford, Ge.. . renowned Methodist minister, a scientist and professor and President of Emory College. Dr. Means received an academic ca. ucation in Emory College. Ga.. class oi 1851 He read medicine for four years under his father. After attending . series of lectures in various colleges in Georgia, he went to Europe to furthe! complete his studies. He remained three years abroad. attending the med ical schools of London. Paris. Dublin and Edinburgh and. returning 10 tns United States, he settled In Memphis Tenn. in 1859.
 At the outbreak of the war between the States, pr. Means returned to Als' bama and was commissioned surgeon in the Confederate Army in July. 1881. He had his initial army experience In the first battle of Manassas. He con- tinued in the Army of Northern Vtr' ginia until the battle of Gettysburg. After the retreat of Lees army, he was ordered by General Longstreet to take charge of the wounded ot his corps and the divisions of Hood and Pickett. He remained in the held tor one month and was afterward trans ferred with the wounded under his chayge to Camp Lsttsrman near Get tysburG, and placed on duty as sur geon of the Confederate officers, pris. oners of war. remaining thsee months. When this hospital was abandoned, Dr.. Means was transferred to Fortress
 McHenry. resr Baltimore, and was held for one month as prisoner or war. He was exchanged shortly after. wards and was ordered to hospital duty further South, locating in Colun.. bus. Ga. In charge of the Marshall Hospital, whore he remained until the close of hostilities.
 In 1887. Dr. Means located in Mont- gomery, where he at once took high rank in his profession. Among the many positions of trust and honor to which he had been called. and In the discharge of which he acquitted him. self with the highest credit. the fol' lowing may be mentioned: Secretary of the Medical and Surgical Society Secretary of ths Board of Health, City Physician and Registrar of Vital Sta tistics, Surgeon in charge of the City Hospital, President and Secretary oi inc City School Board. President of the
 Medical and Surgical Society. one oi the consulting physicians of the Mont, gomery City IHNrmary, Superintendent Public Schools, President Young Mems Christian Association.
 Dr. Means also contributed many ina' portant papers to scientific Journals.
 Dr. Means married Miss Annie E' Powell, daughter of MT and Mrs. W. R. Powell. He Is survived by two daugh- ters, Mrs, L. B. Farley and Mrs R. Y. Ligon, Jr., and a son. MT. Thomas A. Means, Jr., of Montgomery