J. Hartwell Harrison
John Hartwell Harrison (February 16, 1909January 20, 1984) was an American urology, urologic surgeon, professor, and author. He performed the first human organ removal for Organ transplantation, transplant to another. This was a pivotal undertaking as a member of the medical team that accomplished the world’s first successful kidney transplantation, kidney transplant. The team conducted its landmark transplant between identical twins in 1954. Harrison was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia. He was educated there and in Ohio prior to completing his medical training and taking up practice in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; he specialized in urology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Harrison taught surgery at nearby Harvard University, where he also contributed as a textbook editor and produced urological monologues. He died at age 74 of bladder cancer. Family, education, and practice Harrison was born in Clarksville, Virginia, the son of I. Carrington Harrison, ...
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Clarksville, Virginia
Clarksville is a town in Mecklenburg county in the U.S. state of Virginia, near the southern border of the commonwealth. The population was 1,139 at the 2010 census. Since the town has numerous buildings of the 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century architecture, the downtown area of Clarksville has been designated a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places and Virginia's Historic Register. Clarksville claims the title of Virginia's only Lakeside town.
Virginia's only Lakeside Town. Nearby the town of Clarksville is . The town is located on