James Johnston Waring

James Johnston Waring (August 19, 1829 – January 8, 1888) was an American physician.

Biography Waring was born on August 19, 1829, in Savannah, Georgia, to William Richard Waring and Anne Moody Johnston. His mother died when he was seven; his father when he was 14. He graduated from Yale College in 1850, followed by a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania two years later.

In early 1853, Waring worked in Dublin, then St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, followed by seven months in Paris. Upon his return to his native land, in 1856, he settled in Washington, D.C. He was elected 1857 Professor of Physiology, and Professor of Obstretics in the National Medical College. In 1859, he was elected surgeon and curator of the Washington Infirmary. thumb

Waring was practicing medicine in Savannah in 1870, living with his wife and six of their children on 3 West Perry Street in Chippewa Square. The couple's children were: Annie J. (born 1857), Mary B. (1859–1865), Pinckney Alston (1860), Helen (1862), James J. (1865), Thomas (1867) and Minna A. (1869).

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

After a long illness, Waring died on January 8, 1888, aged 58. He is interred in Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery.