From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/21/1901, p. 17, c. 6

BANQUET TO DR. M’CAW.
Academy of Medicine to Honor Veteran Member of the Profession.

On Thursday night, from 8:30 o’clock till 12 o’clock, the Academy of Medicine and Surgery will tender a banquet to Dr. J. B. McCaw at the Commonwealth Club. The banquet is given to mark the retirement of Dr. McCaw from the practice of medicine in this city, after an honored and efficient service, lasting for fifty-seven years. Dr. McCaw is the fourth of that name to practice medicine in this city. He was graduated from the University of New York in 1844.

During the evening Dr. McCaw will be presented with a handsome loving cup, as a mark of the universal esteem in which he is held by his fellow-physicians and surgeons in this city.

Dr. George Ross will act as toast-master, and Drs. Johnston , Brock, and Hugh M. Taylor will address those present.

The committee in charge of arrangements includes Drs. Hugh M. Taylor, William T. Mercer, E. G. Williams, Hobson, and B M. Randolph, Jr.

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