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Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. Charles Drew excelled in academics and sports during his graduate studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Charles Drew was also a honor student at McGill University Medical School in Montreal, where he specialized in physiological anatomy. Charles Drew researched blood plasma and transfusions in New York City, where he became a Doctor of Medical Science â the first African-American to do so at Columbia University. There, he made his discoveries relating to the preservation of blood.
1 Frederick Augustus Woodard (12 February 1854 â 8 May 1915) was a Democratic U.S. congressman from North Carolina between 1893 and 1897. 2  Born near Wilson, Woodard attended private schools in the county and clerked under Richmond Mumford Pearson, chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.