Barron, Moses

"Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a near-constant force in state and national politics for a half century. Born near Crawfordville [Georgia], in Taliaferro County, on February 11, 1812, to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens, the young Stephens was orphaned at fourteen, which intensified his already melancholic disposition. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832 and gained admittance to the bar two years later. There followed a steady and uninterrupted rise to political prominence...Georgians returned Stephens to the House of Representatives in 1877, and he served there until 1882. That same year he was elected governor of the state but died in office on March 4, 1883." - "Alexander Stephens." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008)

Moses Barron, M.D. (1911) University of Minnesota. Clinical professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota; published landmark articles that lead to the isolation of insulin.

Moses Barron was born in 1884 in Russia and emigrated to Minnesota in 1889. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his medical degree in 1911. He practiced medicine and served as a clinical professor of medicine at the University until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1952. During World War I, he joined the Army Medical Reserves Corps and served with the University's Base Hospital No. 26 in France. In 1920 he published a landmark article that gave Dr. F. G. Banting the idea that led to the isolation of insulin. Moses Barron died on December 22, 1974.