Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Garcia, Parsons M. July 16, 1890 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 October 30, 2015, 10:54 pm Source: Vol. II pg.128 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present PARSONS M. GARCIA, M. D. Successfully engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery in West Tampa, Doctor Garcia was a medical officer during the World war, and has exceptional qualifications and training for his profession. He was born at Key West, Florida, July 16, 1890. He was educated in public schools, and in 1917 graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. In the same year he located at Tampa, and soon after beginning practice was commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and assigned to duty with the Eighty-seventh Regiment at Montgomery, Alabama. He received his honorable discharge in 1919, and at once returned to Tampa to take up his private practice. Doctor Garcia is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations and he also belongs to the Medical Veterans of the World war. He is a member of Tampa Lodge No. 708, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Egypt Temple of the Mystic Shrine and is examining physician for the Woodmen of the World. In 1910 he married MARIA MONTFORD of Tampa. They have three children: PARSONS M., Jr., WOODROW W., and EUGENE R. Doctor Garcia has always taken an active part in public affairs and for one term served as a member of the City Council of West Tampa. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/hillsborough/bios/garcia238bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb