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Landrum Brewer Shettles was an American Obstetrician/Gynecologist and a pioneer in the field of in vitro fertilization. Shettles was born Pontotoc County, Mississippi about a mile and a half west of Friendship Community, just East of John's Creek. His father's name was Brazil Manly and Sue Mounce Shettles. He married Priscella Elinor Schmidt on December 18, 1948 and the children Susan Flora, Frances Louis, Lana Brewer, Landrum Brewer, Jr., David Ernest, Harold Manly, and Aliceann Marie, fraternal twins. He served the Major Medical Corps., Army of the United States, 1944 to 1946.