Polk County FlArchives Biographies.....CORDES, HENRY B. June 13, 1887 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. II pg.325

	CORDES, M.D., HENRY BOYLSTON, who served with the rank of captain in 
the Medical Corps during the World war, and is now major on the reserve list, 
has attained an enviable position in his profession, and has a large and 
successful practice at Frostproof in Polk County.
	Doctor CORDES was born in Charleston, South Carolina, June 13, 1887, 
and is a member of an old and prominent family of that city.  His father, 
HENRY BOYLSTON and ELEANOR BALL(SIMONS)CORDES, were also natives of 
Charleston.  His father was of Huguenot stock and his mother of English 
ancestry.  Doctor CORDES is the second child and oldest son, and was seven 
years of age when his parents moved to Jacksonville, Florida.  He was educated 
there in the public schools and under private tutors, and first attended 
medical lectures at Charleston.  He graduated from what is now Emory 
University at Atlanta in 1915.  For a time he was associated with Doctor R. Y. 
H. THOMAS in reorganizing the county Hospital at Jacksonville.  He then 
engaged in general practice, and on July 19, 1917 was commissioned a first 
lieutenant and assigned to duty as battalion surgeon in the Three Hundred and 
Tenth Infantry, Seventy-eighth Division.  He was at Camp Dix, New Jersey, went 
overseas in April, 1918, being commissioned captain, and on September 1, 1918, 
was transferred to the Sanitary Train with the same division.  He acted in 
that capacity until his discharge in June, 1919.  He was overseas twelve 
months, and saw some of the arduous duty of a surgeon on the battle front in 
the St. Mihiel and Argonne campaigns.  At the time of his discharge he was 
made a major in the American Reserve Corps.  Doctor CORDES returned to 
Jacksonville, but on January 13, 1919, located at Frostproof, and is busily 
engaged in a general practice here.  He is a former member of the Duval County 
and a member of the Polk County and State Medical Associations, and is a 
former president of the Frostproof Board of Trade and is a past commander of 
the American Legion, Post No. 82.
	November 15, 1915. Doctor CORDES married Miss ALICE CORBETT, of 
Jacksonville, daughter of Col. WALTER P. CORBETT.


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