Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Stringer, Sheldon June 23, 1883 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.44-45  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        SHELDON STRINGER, M. D.  A record of the professional career of Dr. 
SHELDON STRINGER of Tampa shows that he has been an honor to his calling and a 
valuable addition to the ranks of those who are laboring to bring about 
necessary changes in the management of civic affairs. A man of deep learning, 
profound in his ideas, practical in his suggestions, Doctor Stringer has 
naturally taken a notable place among his associates for many years, and has 
figured prominently in the medical profession of Hillsboro County and the City 
of Tampa. Throughout his entire career he has maintained a high standard of 
ethics and honorable practice. He is a worthy member of the different medical 
associations, and is looked upon as one of the ablest physicians and surgeons 
of Tampa. The spirit of progress which has been the dominant factor in the 
opening years of the twentieth century has been manifest in no connection more 
strongly than in the medical profession, where investigation and research have 
brought forth many scientific facts and principles, solving nature's secrets. 
Step by step Doctor Stringer has kept pace with the march of improvements, and 
has been chosen by a number of concerns to serve them in a professional 
capacity.
	Doctor Stringer was born at Brooksville, Florida, June 23, 1883, a son 
of Doctor SHELDON and MARGARET ELIZABETH (LYKES) STRINGER, natives of North and 
South Carolina, respectively. The father was a practicing physician and surgeon 
for many years, and a graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 
class of 1859. He became a surgeon of the Regular Army, and served as such 
until the secession of the Southern states, when he resigned and offered his 
services to President Davis. These were accepted, and he was stationed at St. 
Augustine, Florida, with the rank of major, in the capacity of chief surgeon of 
the Florida Division and in charge of the Confederate Hospital at that 
location. After the close of the war he moved to Brooksville, Florida, and 
there continued in practice until his death, which occurred in 1903. His widow 
survived him until 1908. They had three children, of whom Doctor Stringer of 
this notice is the youngest.
	Reared in an intellectual atmosphere, Doctor Stringer attended the 
local schools of Brooksville and the Medical College of Virginia, and was 
graduated from the latter in 1905, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For 
the first three months thereafter he was in practice at Brooksville, and then 
spent six months at Key West, Florida, following which, in 1906, he located 
permanently at Tampa, which has continued to be the scene of his professional 
work. In addition to his membership in the various societies of his profession 
he is an honorary member of the New York and New England Association of 
Railroad Surgeons, and of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United 
States. At one time he was president of the Hillsborough County Medical 
Society, and also served it as secretary and treasurer. Until the Tampa 
Northern Railroad was absorbed by the Seaboard Air Line he was its chief 
surgeon. While living at Brooksville he was local surgeon for the Atlantic 
Coast Line Railroad, and was chief surgeon of the Brooksville & Hudson 
Railroad. During Governor Gilchrist’s administration he was a member of the 
State Board of Regular Medical Examiners, and at one time was surgeon-in-charge 
of the Gordon Keller Memorial Hospital, which position he held for 10 years; 
under Mayor D. B. Mckey’s administration he was city health officer for Tampa; 
and at present is acting assistant surgeon for the United States Public Health 
Service for the Tampa District. During the period of the war he was surgeon of 
No.1 local examining board, and at present is president of the local board of 
surgeons for pension examinations. He presented himself for duty and 
examination at the Army Medical College at Washington, District of Columbia, 
and was ordered to report to Maj. R. C. BRYON at Richmond, Virginia, for 
examination. Doctor Stringer was accepted, but the commission was held up 
through some delay, so he did not receive his notification of acceptance until 
a few days following the signing of the armistice. The general order canceling 
all commissions prevented his receiving the one to which he was entitled. 
Doctor Stringer is a Mason and belongs to Tampa Lodge No. 708, B. P. O. E.
	In 1912 Doctor Stringer married Miss GENEVIEVE GIDDENS, a daughter of 
I. S. and RUBIA N. GIDDENS. Doctor Stringer finds pleasure and recreation 
through his membership with the Tampa Yacht Club, the Tampa Country Club and 
the Tampa Golf Club.
	A well-read man, Doctor Stringer enjoys his further studies in medicine 
and surgery. He holds to high ideals in his profession, and is constantly 
seeking to broaden his knowledge that his labors may be more effective, and 
with discriminating intelligence selects the best methods for the treatment of 
individual cases, the soundness of his judgment being manifest in the excellent 
results which follow his labors.

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