Emma Wheat Gillmore papers, 1948-1964.
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Gillmore, Emma Wheat, b. 1867.
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Emma Wheat Gillmore became an Assistant Surgeon with the USPHS during World War I. Her husband, Robert Tracy Gillmore was a captain in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps at the time of his death. She named the Surgeon General of the Army as the executor of her will. After her death on August 15, 1948, Captain Victor B. Taylor was appointed the responsibility of settling her estate, which included giving $23,434.75 to the Army Medical Library. From the description of Emma Wheat Gillmo...
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...
