Sandy Springer Reuben Brigham published this article in Farm & Fireside in July 1926.

Dr. Bird's first hospital, the private home Wrenwood, nursed patients from 1911 until the founding of Montgomery General. On opening, it quickly became busy, "For when," asked the Annals, "did the world, or even healthy Sandy Spring, ever lack for sick and suffering humanity?" Wrenwood stood near the site of today's Adventist Church in Brinklow.