Chaillé, Stanford E. (Stanford Emerson), 1830-1911

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Stanford Chaillé gained fame as the head of the U.S. Havana Yellow Fever Commission of 1879, organized to study the disease following the dreadful 1878 plague in New Orleans, La. He was chairman of the Tulane University Department of Physiology (1868-1907) and dean of the Tulane School of Medicine (1885-1908).

From the description of Stanford Chaillé stock certificate, 1862. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 81259752

Stanford E. Chaillé was born on July 9, 1830, in Natchez, Mississippi, the descendant of several patriots of the Revolutionary War. Educated by private tutors until his mother's death, Chaillé eventually graduated from Phillips' Academy in South Andover, Massachusetts, in 1847. Chaillé then received an A. B. (bachelor's degree) in 1851 from Harvard College and later earned his medical degree from the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane) in 1853. Chaillé later returned to Harvard College and received an A. M. (master's degree) in 1854. On February 23, 1857, Dr. Chaillé married Laura E. Montfort. The union produced one child, Mary Laura Chaillé. Laura E. Montfort died on August 18, 1858. Before the Civil War, Dr. Chaillé worked as a resident student in the New Orleans Charity Hospital and then served as a resident physician at the United States Marine Hospital and at the Circus Street Infirmary.

During the war, Dr. Chaillé rose from being a private in the New Orleans Light Horse Brigade to acting Confederate Surgeon General of Louisiana in 1862. In May, 1862, Dr. Chaillé became the surgeon and medical inspector of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In July of 1863, Dr. Chaillé took the post of surgeon-in-charge of the Fairground Hospital #2 in Atlanta, Georgia, then transferred to Okmulgee Hospital in Macon, Georgia in December, 1863. While in Georgia, Dr. Chaillé met, and later married, Mary Louisa Napier.

After the Civil War, Dr. Chaillé lectured and demonstrated anatomy and obstetrics in New Orleans. In 1878, Congress selected Dr. Chaillé to study the great yellow fever epidemic, and he later sat on the Havana Yellow Fever Commission. Dr. Chaillé also contributed significantly to medical literature. Among these contributions was his formulation of infant developmental standards in 1887. From 1885 until his retirement in 1908, Dr. Chaillé served as the dean of Tulane's medical school. Dr. Stanford E. Chaillé died in 1911.

From the guide to the Stanford E. Chaillé Collection, 1860-1903, (Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.)

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Ocmulgee Hospital. Ocmulgee Hospital records, 1862-1865. Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
creatorOf Stanford E. Chaillé Collection, 1860-1903 Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
referencedIn Chaillé-Jamison family papers, 1847-1966. Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
creatorOf Chaillé, Stanford E. (Stanford Emerson), 1830-1911. [Collected reprints, 1855-1908 of Stanford Emerson Chaillé] Tulane University, Medical Center Library
referencedIn Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843 Houghton Library
creatorOf Chaillé, Stanford E. (Stanford Emerson), 1830-1911. Stanford Chaillé stock certificate, 1862. Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries
referencedIn Cohn, Isidore, 1885-1980. Isidore Cohn papers, 1879-1972 (bulk 1920-1950). Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries
referencedIn Goulding, F. R. (Francis Robert), 1810-1881. F.R. Goulding papers, 1846-1934. Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
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associatedWith Bank of Louisiana. corporateBody
associatedWith Cohn, Isidore, 1885-1980. person
associatedWith Goulding, F. R. (Francis Robert), 1810-1881. person
associatedWith Louisiana. Board of Health. corporateBody
associatedWith Ocmulgee Hospital. corporateBody
associatedWith Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 person
associatedWith Tulane University School of Medicine corporateBody
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Louisiana
Louisiana--New Orleans
United States
Subject
Medical education
Medical education
History of Medicine, Modern
Public health
Quarantine
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Sanitation
Yellow fever
Yellow fever
Yellow fever
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Birth 1830

Death 1911

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