Editing Sandy Spring, Maryland (section)

===Dr. Bird===
[[Dr Jacob Wheeler Bird]] was born in [[Anne Arundel County]] in 1885.<ref name= bird>{{citation |title= Automobiles in Early Twentieth Century Montgomery County |first= Patricia Abelard |last= Andersen |page= 18 |work= The Montgomery County Story |volume= 54 |number= 2 |date= Winter 2011 }}</ref> He attended [[St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)|St. John's College]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], and he earned his medical degree from the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore]] in 1907.<ref name= bird/>

In 1909, Dr. Bird moved to Sandy Spring to set up his medical practice on the road now named for him, Dr. Bird Road.<ref name= bird/>  He also established the first hospital located in Montgomery County, now called [[MedStar Montgomery Medical Center|Montgomery General Hospital]].<ref name= bird/>

During his fifty-year medical career, Dr. Bird made house calls to his patients, at first in a horse-drawn buggy and later an automobile.<ref name= bird/>  He founded [[Montgomery General Hospital]] in February 1920.

Dr. Bird and his wife died in an automobile accident in Alabama on October 25, 1959.<ref name= bird/>