Midway Village Museum shares the legacy of Daniel Hale Williams, a doctor who spent part of his youth in Rockford, for Throwback Thursday on February 15th. Yahoo Finance ...

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known as “Dr. Dan” performed the first successful open heart surgery in America. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1856 ...

LIMA — In 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams completed the first-ever successful heart surgery. Today, physicians around the world continue to make advancements that change the scope of healthcare.