Medicine: Restless Orthopedist

Happily endowed with money, brains and background is Dr. Michael Hoke of Atlanta. His father. Robert Frederick Hoke. a Major General in the Confederate Army, prospered during Reconstruction by pushing what is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad through North Carolina to Atlanta. Dr. Hoke's mother was a New York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil...

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