Early County GaArchives Biographies.....STANDIFER, WILLIAM BRYAN November 22, 1855 - June 3, 1932
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Source: Historical Collection of Georgia
Author: George White

WlLLIAM BRYAN STANDIFER, physician and surgeon, Blakely, Early Co., Ga., son 
of Dr. Wm. M. and Mary Grist (Bryan) Standifer, was born in Blakely Nov. 22, 
1855. He received as good an education as the troublous times and the locality 
could afford, and then attended the medical college of Georgia, Augusta, 
whence he graduated in 1876. He immediately located at Blakely, where he has 
continued, excepting one year, when he was quarantine officer at Apalachicola, 
Fla. He succeeded to his father’s fine practice, whose excellent reputation he 
sustains. He enjoys an increasing and handsomely remunerative patronage. He is 
resident surgeon of the Central railway of Georgia. In November, 1885, Dr. 
Standifer was married to Miss Jennie Rebecca, sister of Maj. Thomas F. Jones. 
This union has been blessed with three children: Jack Guy, born April 14, 
1888; Rebecca, born July 26, 1890, and Bessie, born Aug. 24, 1893. Dr. 
Standifer is a master Mason, and a member of Magnolia lodge, No. 86, of which 
he has been worshipful master three times.

Second biography
DR. WILLIAM BRYAN STANDIFER, son of Dr. William M. Standifer and Mary Grist 
Bryan Standifer, was born in Blakely, Georgia, on November 22, 1855. He 
attended school in Blakely. The school was taught at that time, by Professor 
Dozier. Dr. Standifer was graduated from the Medical Department of the 
University of Georgia in March, 1876. After graduation, he practiced in 
Blakely, in all the southern part of Early County, and also in Baker County. 
He was Railway Surgeon for the Central of Georgia Railroad for a number of 
years,, until he was forced to resign because of ill health. 
During the years of 1881 and 1882 he was Quarantine Master of the Port of 
Apalachicola, Florida. During the height of the storm of September 9, 1882, he 
was knocked overboard from his official boat and somehow managed to swim 
ashore. Dr. Standifer returned to Blakely in 1883 and remained here; however, 
health reasons necessitated his spending the year of -1897 in St. Andrews, 
Florida. 
On November 18, 1885, Dr. Standifer was married to Miss Rebecca Janet Jones of 
Covington, Georgia. The marriage took place in Bluffton, Georgia. They were 
the parents of three children, Dr. Jack Guy Standifer, Mrs. Rebe May Standifer 
Strickland, and Mrs. Elizabeth (Bessie) Emma Standifer Gammon. Rebecca Janet 
Jones Standifer died on June 3, 1932. Dr. William Bryan Standifer died on June 
25, 1942, and was buried in the Blakely Cemetery.


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