Dr. P. F. Eve was born in Augusta at Goodale Landing on Sandbar Ferry Road on June 27, 1806. He was the son of Captain Oswell and Aphra Eve.

 

He attended Richmond Academy around 1820 and, like so many Academy students, went on to Franklin College (now the University of Georgia).  After finishing at Franklin College, he went to the University of Pennsylvania Medical College and graduated in 1828. He then went to Europe and worked at clinics with some of the most famous surgeons in Europe.

 

While in Paris, he volunteered as a surgeon for the French Revolutionists and later volunteered his services to Poland in the Russian-Polish War.  He was awarded the Golden Cross of Honor.

 

Dr. Eve returned to his hometown of Augusta in January 1832 and opened his office and residence on Greene Street.

 

He was elected as the first professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery at the Medical College of Augusta. This was a short time after the Medical College was founded on the corner of Telfair and Washington. He remained at the Medical College of Georgia until 1850. That same year, he became a professor of surgery at the University of Louisville, where he remained until 1853.

 

In 1853, he worked at the University of Nashville, with interruptions during the Civil War. During this time, he was Surgeon General of Tennessee. After the fall of Nashville in 1862, he held the position of surgeon and commander of the Gate City Hospital in Atlanta until 1864.

 

In 1866, he returned to the Medical College in Nashville. He left there in 1868 and went to the Missouri Medical College and stayed until 1870. He returned to Nashville that year and stayed at the College of Nashville until 1876.

 

For many years, he stood in the front rank of his profession and was elected the 10th president of the American Medical Association. They never forgot him in Poland. He was honored on a Polish Stamp and a monument was erected by the Polish Government.

 

Dr. Eve died November 3, 1877 in Nashville, Tennessee and is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Augusta. After the death of his first wife, he married Sarah Ann Duncan in 1852. She died June 3, 1897, and is also buried at Magnolia Cemetery.

 

Dr. Eve will always be remembered as one of the founders of the Medical College of Georgia.