Walter Reed letter to A.E. Truby [manuscript], 1900 December 10.

Reed, Walter, 1851-1902

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Born in Gloucester County, Va., Walter Reed received an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1869 and another M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1871. He joined the Army Medical Corps in 1876. Reed served in many areas throughout the country, including Fort Lowell, Az., and Baltimore, before becoming professor of bacteriology at the Army Medical School in 1893. During the Spanish-American War he sought a cure for typhoid fever in Cuba. After the war, he remained in Cuba with the Y...

Barbee, David Rankin, 1874-1958

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David Rankin Barbee was born Oct. 15, 1874, in Murfreesboro, Tenn., son of the Rev. John Dodson and Margaret Overson Rankin Barbee. He attended Emory and Henry College, without receiving a degree. In 1896 Barbee began a career in journalism with the Nashville Banner. He subsequently worked for newspapers in Memphis, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans and Ashville. Barbee came to Washington, D.C. as a feature writer for the Washington Post in 1928. He joined the F.D. Roosevelt administr...

Finlay, Carlos Juan 1833-1915

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Truby, Albert E. (Albert Ernest), 1871-1954

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Albert E. Truby (1871-1954) was born in Otto, New York. He attended Cornell University before earning his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. When the Spanish American War began, he joined U.S. Army Medical Corps as assistant surgeon in 1898. Although not a member of the Yellow Fever Board, Truby assisted Walter Reed in his quest for the cause of yellow fever at the Columbia Barracks in Cuba. From 1903 to 1916, Truby was stationed in San Francisco, Cuba, the Philippines and ...