Dr. Madison S. Briscoe (1904-1995)

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Madison S. Briscoe, biologist, was raised in this house, attended the local Black school, and earned degrees from Storer College and Lincoln, Columbia, and Catholic Universities. He taught at Storer, where he co-founded the pre-medical program, and at the Howard University College of Medicine, where he specialized in public health with a focus on parasitic diseases and tropical medicine. As commanding officer of the U.S. Army’s 16th Malaria Survey Unit, Briscoe helped keep troops healthy during World War II. In the 1950s, his research in Egypt and Central America examined the role of insects and microorganisms in disease transmission. He published widely in scientific and medical journals.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Madison S. Briscoe CV Emma Dacol, “Dr. Madison Spencer Briscoe,” in “To Emancipate the Mind and Soul”: Storer College, 1867-1955 (Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2017). Claire Stewart, “Madison Spencer Briscoe, Renaissance Man,” Good News Paper, vol. 24, no. 2 (summer 2002): 9. Chicago Defender, 12 June 1943, 12 May 1956. Jackson Advocate, 6 June 1953. Jet Magazine, 2 July 1953. Evening Star, 26 July 1956. Madison S. Briscoe, “Vignettes of Life in Liberia,” Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 53, no. 4 (July 1961): 323-326, 435. “Dr. Madison Spencer Briscoe, Storer College, and Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park” https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/nca-natural-history/Dr_Briscoe.html U.S. Census, 1910, 1920