Edgar Erskine Hume collection, 1918-1952.

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Edgar Erskine Hume collection, 1918-1952.

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This small collection consists of three items associated with Major General Edgar Erskine Hume. One item is a scrapbook of a May 19, 1918, Courier-Journal article by Lorenze W. Martin concerning Hume's work on keeping the U.S. Army camps clean and sanitary and keeping the soldiers healthy during World War I. Another item is a six-page biography of Hume issued by the U.S. Army in 1949. Attached to it is a note written by Hume to the Kentucky Historical Society offering the biography for their files. Also included is a note written by Edgar Erskine Hume, Jr., to Bayless Hardin of the Kentucky Historical Society thanking him for the flowers that the Society sent after his father's death.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952

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Edgar Erskine Hume, a major general in the U.S. Army medical corps, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1889. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Centre College in Danville and earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913. He entered the U.S. Army medical corps in 1916 and commanded all American hospitals in Italy before transferring to France near the end of World War I. He later directed the American Red Cross in Serbia during a typhus epidemic. During World War II,...

Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xp826n (person)

Edgar Erskine Hume, a major general in the U.S. Army medical corps, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1889. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Centre College in Danville and earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913. He entered the U.S. Army medical corps in 1916 and commanded all American hospitals in Italy before transferring to France near the end of World War I. He later directed the American Red Cross in Serbia during a typhus epidemic. During World War II,...