Jacob was born on 8 August 1851 in
Lexington county,, South Carolina. He was the son of
James David Unger and
Elizabeth Julia Ann Holman. He married
Maggie Crawford Neel on 25 January 1877. Jacob & Maggie Neal had 3 children, but all died as children.. He married
Florence H. McMillian in
Madison county,, Mississippi, on 18 January 1900. Jacob died in 1930 in
West Point,, Clay county,, Mississippi. His body was interred in
West Point,, Clay county,, Mississippi, in Greenwood cemetery. Dr. Jake is bureid in Section D-1 lot 28.
"...one of the best known and most distinguished physicians and surgeons of Mississippi. is engaged in practice at West Point, Clay county, where he owns and conducts the Panphysion, a well equiped institution for the treatment of disease by physiological methods. A son of James David and Julia Elizabeth(Holman) Unger, the doctor was born in Lexington county, S.C.,on Aug. 8,1851. With a common school education as a preliminary, he began the study of medicine in 1873, having as his preceptor Dr. A.S.Bramby, of Goodman, Miss. After attending two courses of lectures in Louisvile medical college he was there graduated in 1875, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, while in the same year the old Kentucky School of Medicine conferred upon him the ad eundem degree. During the session of 1881-2 Dr. Unger attended the Bellevue Hospital medical college, in the city of New York, and the supplemental degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon him by that renowned institution in 1882, while he has taken post-graduatecourses and been granted certificates of the same in the New Orleans Polyclinic, 1888; the New York Post-Graduate medical school, 1898; Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat college, 1898 and the Cincinnati Post-Gradiate School of Pysiological Therapeutics, 1904. In February, 1905, the last mentioned institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of Bachelor of Physiotherapy. Dr. Unger practiced his profession at Newport,Attala county, Miss., from 1875 to 1883; was at Sharon, Madison county, during the year 1884; since that time has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in West Point. He was a member of the Attala and Holmes county medical society and the Medical and Surgical Society of Mississippi until they became defunct, and he is now prominently identified with the Clay and Oktibbeha county medical society, the Mississippi State medical association, the American medical association and the American Electro Therapeutic association. The doctor is a member of the State Historical Society and is identified with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1878 a paper from his pen, on tubercular meningitis, was published in the Southern Medial Record and was republished in the St. Louis Medical Brief. In1895 he contributed a paper on porramyclomus multiplex to the Medical and Surgical Society of Mississippi, and the same appeared on the records of that organization. Other papers written by Dr. Unger are, "Influenza," before the Clay and Oktibbeha county medical society, and one on "Light Rays,"which was published in the Mississippi Medical Monthly. He has been medical examiner of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company,the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias and the national bureau of pensions, and at the present time he is examiner for the New York Equitable Life Assurance Society and the Penn Mutal of Philadelphia. He has been the attending physician of the Southern Female college, at West Point, from the time of its organization, except for one year, and his practice is wide in scope and representative in character. In September,1904, Dr. Unger purchased and equipped the Panphysion, an institution second to none in the State for the treatment of disease by physiological methods, and under the able direction of the doctor the success of the enterprise has been most emphatic and unequivocal. On Jan 25, 1877, Dr. Unger was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Crawford Neal, of Sharon, Miss., and she died April 23, 1897 3 children were born from this union but all died as children On Jan. 18,1900, was solemized the marriage of Dr. Unger to Miss Florence H. McMillian, of Louisville, Miss., and they have three children--Anel Merton, Annie Elizabeth, and Jacob W., Jr." SOURCE: Mississippi, by Dunbar Rowland, volume 3. F339.R88 1976 (Emory University Library).
My mother (Lucy Unger) assisted Dr. Unger for a time in his office and she tells of him removing her tonsils while she held the instrument tray.