He believed that sterilizing people with certain traits that he believed to be hereditary would prevent these traits from being passed on to future generations. Ī devout Presbyterian, DeJarnette supported the temperance movement. In 1906, DeJarnette worked with Aubrey Strode and Albert Priddy to establish the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Lynchburg.
She continued to practice medicine following the marriage and the couple had no children. Chertsey Hopkins, a physician at Western State Hospital, as he was advised that being a stable, married man was necessary for career advancement. On February 14, 1906, he married a colleague, Dr.
The asylum was renamed Western State Hospital in 1894. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home in Richmond for a year before joining the staff of the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton. His uncle Daniel Coleman DeJarnette was a prominent Virginia politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, United States Congress and the Confederate Congress during the Civil War.Īfter graduating from the Medical College of Virginia in 1888, DeJarnette practiced at the R.
His maternal grandfather Benjamin Henry Magruder was a prominent Virginia lawyer and legislator, and in 1864, was elected to the US House of Representatives. The DeJarnettes were descended from French Huguenot immigrants who settled in Virginia during the colonial period and had been prominent in Virginia planter class society for generations. Joseph DeJarnette was born on his family's plantation, Pine Forest, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia to parents Elliott Hawes DeJarnette, formerly a Captain in the Confederate Army and Evelyn Magruder DeJarnette.
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