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WALTER S. SLICER, M. D.

Dr. Walter Stevenson Slicer, son of Captain J. S.
Slicer and Eliza Williams Slicer, was born at Montvale,
in Bedford County, Virginia, March, 1880. He attended
the Montvale
Sub-Collegiate School,
afterwards coming to
Roanoke and beginning
his active career in the
employ of the Charles
Lyle Drug Company,
and at the age of eighteen
years he had charge
of what was then known
as the White Front
Pharmacy, now McGee's
Drug Store. In 1900 he
entered the University
College of Medicine,
Richmond, Virginia,
graduating four years
later at the age of twenty-four.
Immediately
after graduation he was
offered and accepted the position as Physician and
Surgeon for the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company,
and the Pulaski Iron Company, located at Cripple
Creek, Virginia, where he served until 1909, when
he moved to Roanoke. Besides being a regular physician
enjoying a large practice in Roanoke, he is Physician
in Charge of the Roanoke Sanitarium, Incorporated,
Surgeon for the Norfolk & Western Railway
and Assistant Surgeon for the Lewis-Gale Hospital.
He is a member of the American Medical Association,
Virginia Medical Society, Medical Society of Southwest
Virginia, Roanoke Academy of Medicine, and Norfolk
& Western Surgeons' Association.

Dr. Slicer has the confidence and esteem of the people
wherever he has been and enjoys a high place in the
estimation of the people of Roanoke and vicinity.