RARE "Director NJ Board of Health" J Lynn Mahaffey Hand Signed TLS For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Director NJ Board of Health" J Lynn Mahaffey Signed TLS dated 1935. 

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DR. JAMES LYNN MAHAFFEY was born in Hillsdale, Pennsylvania

in 1879. After graduating from Hillsdale High School in 1897 He attended the

Teachers College of Indiana, graduating in 1898, then went to the

Medico-Chirurgical College, graduating in 1902. He was a general practitioner.

Dr. Mahaffey was appointed to the staff of Cooper Hospital and served as

Chairman of Medicine from 1909 through 1929. Dr. Mahaffey and Dr. Elmer

Shall organized the Bellevue Hospital in Camden, at North 5th

Street and Linden Street,

in the mansion that had been the home of Senator

William Joyce Sewell. The hospital opened up on March 21, 1921. Dr.

Mahaffey was a member of the State Board of Health from 1926 through 1931, and

was Director of the State Board of health from 1931 through 1946. The North

Camden Trust Company began business on May 4, 1926 in the banking house

on Penn Street at North 6th and

the Bridge Plaza. Dr. J. Lynn Mahaffey was the first President. He was

also a member of the Camden

Chamber of Commerce and was on that group's Board of Directors

in 1928. Dr. Mahaffey's professional affiliations included membership in the

Camden County Medical Society, where he served a term as President; the State

and Provincial Medical Officers of North America; the New Jersey Crippled

Children's Committee; and he served on the executive committee of the State

Tuberculosis Association of New Jersey. Dr. J. Lynn Mahaffey was married

to Alice Fogg. The marriage produced three children, J. Lynn Mahaffey Jr.,

Albert Mahaffey, and Alice F. Mahaffey. The Mahaffeys made their home at

408 Cooper Street in

the late 1910s and early 1920s before moving to Haddonfield. New Jersey. Last a

resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Dr. J. Lynn Mahaffey passed away on

November 1, 1948.