death_date children birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name occupation alma_mater
1939 1869 drucilla moultrie bernetta parks trinidad , british west indes 01 august 1869 elizabeth gavino hubert augustus nathaniel lushington
 augustus nathaniel livingston veterinarian cornell university university of pennsylvania
augustus nathaniel lushington

august nathaniel lushington , -lrb- born august 1 , 1869 - 1939 -rrb- , became the first african american to earn doctor of veterinary medicine -lrb- d.v.m -rrb- at the university of pennsylvania in 1897 .
he practiced about two years in philadelphia and worked as an instructor in veterinary sanitation and hygiene at bell mead industrial and agricultural college at rock castle , west virginia .
later , he practiced for much of his career life in very segregated lynchburg , virginia , where he experienced unfair treatment , but he finally earned a reputation as a superior practitioner in the community .
he had memberships in the statistical reporter to the bureau of animal industry , federal department agriculture , and the lychburg chamber of commerce .
