James Johnston Waring

[2] In early 1853, he worked in Dublin, then St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, followed by seven months in Paris.

[1] In 1868, Waring was expelled from the Medical Society of Savannah for "providing surety on the bonds of people of color who were charged with riotous conduct," a decision that was reversed by the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Waring rented property on Skidaway Island to black people so that they might learn self-dependence.

"[3] Waring was practicing medicine in Savannah in 1870, living with his wife and six of their children at 3 West Perry Street in Chippewa Square.

[5] When a yellow fever epidemic struck Savannah in 1876, he became chairman of a committee of the city government to carry out sanitary reform.