Jefferson Randolph Kean Papers 1904-1950

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Jefferson Randolph Kean Papers 1904-1950

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Chief Surgeon with the 7th Army Corps in Cuba. He studied yellow fever with Walter Reed and remained in Cuba as a sanitary officer until 1909. From then until 1917, Kean was assistant to the Surgeon General of the Army, a position he had also held from 1902 to 1906. He was named Director General of Military Relief and Deputy Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. General Kean retired from the army in 1924. A great friend and supporter of Reed's, he organized the Walter Reed Memorial Association.

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Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950

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Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government. From the description of Papers and correspondence of Gen. Kean's army career and tenure as Sanitary Advisor to the Cuban Provisional Government regarding Order of Indian Wars, Seventh Army Corps, 1898-1900 [manuscript] 1898-1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970591 Surgeon and Army officer. From the description of Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean [manuscript] 1897-1950. (University of Virg...