Dr James Archer Smith
(1891-1982)

Died aged c. 91

Dr. James Archer Smith was born in 1891. He was a native Floridian and an Army Captain who served in the Army Medical Corps during World War I. In 1919 he moved his family to Homestead and began a medical practice. He made up to 20 house calls a day. In 1923 he was appointed chief surgeon of Dade County Hospital in Kendall where he worked for 30 years. In 1967 the Florida Academy of General Practitioners named him "Man of the Year." Homestead citizens honored him for 50 years of community service in 1969 and renamed the hospital the James Archer Smith Hospital. Dr. Smith continued to see patients until he died in 1982 at the age of 91.

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