Calm Before the Storm
By the time he was 20, Holliday had earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, which later became part of the present-day University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Sadly, despite his success, he had endured significant tragedy along the way.
Tragic Loss
Holliday’s mother passed away in 1866 after succumbing to tuberculosis. Her death devastated Holliday, who loved his mother deeply. Not long afterward, Francisco contracted tuberculosis and passed away. After their deaths, Holliday’s father remarried a woman only a few years older than him. Holliday needed an escape…
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