From collection Member List
Brother Harbin entered The University of Georgia in October of 1882. Member, Demosthenian Society. With six others, including his brother Thomas Witherspoon Harbin, he was one of The “Second Founders” of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, chartered April 26, 1884, as a junior.
Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Georgia, June 16, 1885. The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 57: “... One of K.Δ’s most energetic workers is reading medicine preparatory to entering Washington and Jefferson Medical College.” Graduate, M.D., Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, New York, 1888.
Harbin was a physician for many years in Rome, Georgia and, in 1908, established the Harbin Hospital there with a younger brother, William Pickens Harbin (UGA, 1894, Χ.Ψ.; died 1945) Brother Harbin was author of several medical texts, including Health and Happiness: An Analogical Study of Disease and Sin, 1908, and Paradoxical Pain, 1916.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” April 1940, p. 546:
ROBERT MAXWELL HARBIN
(Georgia ‘85)
Robert Maxwell Harbin (Georgia ‘85), a physician for almost half a century, died at Rome, Ga., on December 12, 1939. He was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons in 1914-15. Born in Fair Play, S. C., on December 10, 1864, he moved early to Gordon County, Ga. After obtaining his A.B. degree at The University of Georgia, he was a student at the old Bellevue Medical College, New York, getting his M.D. degree in 1888. Then he returned to Calhoun, Ga., to practice with his father and in 1894 began his work in Rome. He and a brother founded Rome’s first hospital in 1908 and gave it their name. Among his relatives was a Fiji brother, the late Thomas Witherspoon Harbin (Georgia ’85,) a charter member of Kappa Deuteron Chapter and later prominent in northern Georgia judicial circles.
Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Georgia, June 16, 1885. The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 57: “... One of K.Δ’s most energetic workers is reading medicine preparatory to entering Washington and Jefferson Medical College.” Graduate, M.D., Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, New York, 1888.
Harbin was a physician for many years in Rome, Georgia and, in 1908, established the Harbin Hospital there with a younger brother, William Pickens Harbin (UGA, 1894, Χ.Ψ.; died 1945) Brother Harbin was author of several medical texts, including Health and Happiness: An Analogical Study of Disease and Sin, 1908, and Paradoxical Pain, 1916.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” April 1940, p. 546:
ROBERT MAXWELL HARBIN
(Georgia ‘85)
Robert Maxwell Harbin (Georgia ‘85), a physician for almost half a century, died at Rome, Ga., on December 12, 1939. He was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons in 1914-15. Born in Fair Play, S. C., on December 10, 1864, he moved early to Gordon County, Ga. After obtaining his A.B. degree at The University of Georgia, he was a student at the old Bellevue Medical College, New York, getting his M.D. degree in 1888. Then he returned to Calhoun, Ga., to practice with his father and in 1894 began his work in Rome. He and a brother founded Rome’s first hospital in 1908 and gave it their name. Among his relatives was a Fiji brother, the late Thomas Witherspoon Harbin (Georgia ’85,) a charter member of Kappa Deuteron Chapter and later prominent in northern Georgia judicial circles.
