Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Lanier, William T. 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.166  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present    

	WILLIAM T. LANIER, M. D.  The name of this very capable physician and
surgeon has been associated with professional service in Dade County for the
past ten years, and since completing his duties in the Army Medical Corps, he
has resumed private practice in Miami, and is now City Health Officer.
	Doctor Lanier was born in Lowndes County, Georgia, son of M. T. and LEE
A. (ROBERTS) LANIER. He was reared and acquired his common school education at
Cordele, his native state, and prepared for his profession in the University of
Georgia, Medical Department at Augusta, where he was graduated with the class
of 1912. In the same year Doctor Lanier began practice at Clearwater, Florida,
was there a year and a half, and in 1913, located at Homestead in Dade County.
For nearly five years he carried on a general practice in that territory.
	In 1918 he left Homestead and reported for duty in the Army Medical 
Corps with a commission of first lieutenant. He was assigned to the Base 
Hospital at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, and was there until after the 
war. Early in 1919 Doctor Lanier returned to Florida and located at Miami, 
where he took charge of the Health Department. His official designation is head 
of the Health Division of the Department of Public Welfare. He has charge of 
all matters connected with the public health, sanitation, food supplies, 
inspections, and in addition to his local authority he is representative of the 
United States Public Health Service for the port of Miami in charge of all 
quarantine matters, inspections of incoming ships, their crews and passengers. 
Dr. Lanier is a member of the American Legion, is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, being affiliated with Mahi Temple of the
Mystic Shrine at Miami. He married Miss MONTINE HORNE of Georgia.


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