Bumgarner, John R. 1912-
Bumgarner, John R. 1912-
(John Reed Bumgarner)
PERSONAL: Born January 30, 1912, in Lansing, NC; son of J.L.A. (a minister) and Margaret P. (a homemaker) Bumgarner; married August 30, 1947; wife’s name Evelyn S. (a homemaker); children: John Reed, Jr., Evelyn Lyn. Education: Lincoln Memorial University, B.A.; Medical College of Virginia, M.D. Politics: Republican. Religion: Methodist.
ADDRESSES: Home— Greensboro, NC.
CAREER: Wesley Long Hospital, Greensboro, NC, cardiologist and head of cardiology department, 1954-73. Affiliate of American Board of Cardiology and American Board of Internal Medicine. Military service: U.S. Army, Medical Corps, 1942-45, including time as Japanese prisoner of war; became major; received Bronze Star.
MEMBER: Young Men’s Christian Association, Kiwanis.
WRITINGS
Health of the Presidents: The 41 U.S. Presidents through 1993 from a Physician’s Point of View, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1994.
Parade of the Dead: A U.S. Army Physician’s Memoir of Imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945, illustrated by Doris B. Hayes, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1995.
Sarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1997.
Life in the Methodist Parsonage, Vantage Press (New York, NY), 2000.