History of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, Washington, D.C. / C.G. Toepper 1934.
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Library of the Surgeon General's Office (U.S.)
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Walter Drew McCaw, 1863-1939, was a career Army medical officer. After training at the Medical School of Virginia and Columbia University Medical School, he joined the Army Medical Department in 1884. He served in various posts in the west and south, in Cuba during the Spanish American war, and in the Philippines afterward. He was appointed director of the Library on October 3, 1903. McCaw left his position in 1913 to resume active duty in the Philippines. From the description of Lib...
Army Medical Library (U.S.)
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The Army Medical Library began in 1836 when Surgeon General of the Army Joseph Lovell first established a collection of medical literature for official use. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian, greatly increased collections and initiated the Index Catalogue. By 1936 the library held more than a million items and was considered one of the premier medical libraries in the world. From the guide to the Materials relating to the one hundredth anniversary of the Army Medical Library, 1...
Toepper, C. G. (Charles G.), 1874-1942
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Charles G. Toepper, was born in Missouri and enlisted in the Navy at age 16. He spent 1895-1898 as a sergeant in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. After a few years' in civil and private employment, Toepper joined the Army Medical Library staff in 1905. Three years later, after serving in the Philippines as an Inspector in the Philippine Constabulary, he returned to the Library and remained until he accepted a commission during World War I. Upon his military discharge in 1920, he returned to the Army Medi...
