Jefferson Davis CDV?

[Darrell]

Hi Windband & All,

This is my first post, although I've enjoyed reading this forum for quite some time. I've never felt that I had anything of value to contribute -that is until now. However, based on my exhaustive research (i.e., randomly googling around - ha!) I think I've identified your photo.

I believe you have a photograph of Dr. James Crowdhill Hall. He was also a White House doctor and a close friend of Dr. Thomas Miller. Photos of both men can be found in "The White House Physician: A History from Washington to George W. Bush" by Ludwig M. Deppisch, M.D. (See pages 20 and 21 in the below Google Books link.)

Virginia Miller stated the following about their friendship in "Dr. Thomas Miller and His Times," published in 1900: (second link below)

"(Dr. James C. Hall) wrote me long after my father's death: 'Life has never been the same for me since your father's death. I miss him every day and hour,' and well he might say so, for there never was a day when they were both in town, during their long friendship of more than fifty years, that they did not meet for friendly converse, and it was quite a habit of Dr. Hall's to drop in and take breakfast or tea with us."

https://books.google.com/books?id=IqvuhJ...&q&f=false

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40066758.pdf