Floyd W. McRae Sr.

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Dr. Floyd W. McRae Sr., pictured in 1895, was a surgeon and the cofounder of Piedmont Sanatorium (later Piedmont Hospital), which opened in 1905 in downtown Atlanta.

Photograph from C. W. Motes, in Piedmont Hospital Archives

Floyd W. McRae Sr.

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