Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School correspondence, 1902-1912.

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Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School correspondence, 1902-1912.

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These records pertain to the merger of Cooper Medical College with Stanford University. They consist largely of correspondence, with a few reports and financial documents. Most of the letters are addressed to David Starr Jordan, although some of the correspondence is that of George A. Clark, the academic secretary of Stanford University. In addition to the details of the merger, the letters address curriculum issues, faculty appointments, fees, facilities, financial matters, future needs and plans, the medical school library, the possible association with the University of California, and the Lane Medical Lectures. Correspondents include Adolph Barkan, Clarence J. Blake, Henry Gibbons, Jr., Timothy Hopkins, Arthur W. Meyer, William Ophuls, Henry S. Pritchett, Howard T. Ricketts, Emmet Rixford, John Maxson Stillman, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and Hans Zinsser.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Ophüls, William 1871-1933

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Cooper Medical College

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Stanford University. President's Office.

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Cooper Medical College in San Francisco was formally established in 1882 under the leadership of Dr. Levi Cooper Lane. In 1901 Cooper Medical College and Stanford University began to talk about the possibility of a union. Between 1902 and 1907 the details of the merger were worked on and a final agreement was reached by the university Board of Trustees on January 31, 1908. The first faculty was appointed in October 1908. From the description of Stanford University, President's Office...

Gibbons, Henry, 1840-1911.

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Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937.

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Timothy Hopkins was a businessman, member of the original Stanford University Board of Trustees (1885-1937) and served as president of the board (1908-1914)., From the description of Timothy Hopkins papers, 1804-1942 (inclusive), 1870-1935 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703381495 Biographical note Timothy Hopkins was a businessman, member of the original Stanford University Board of Trustees (1885-1937), and serve...

Rixford, Emmet, 1865-1938.

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Meyer, Arthur William, 1873-

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Clark, George A. (George Archibald), 1864-1918

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George A. Clark, born in Eden Prairie, Minnesota in 1864, graduated from the University of Minnesota and served as Academic Secretary of Stanford University from 1891-1918. He was Secretary of the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission (1896-1898) and was involved in the special investigation of seal herds for the Bureau of Fisheries in 1909 and 1912. He died 27 April 1918. From the description of Fur seal controversy papers, 1897-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384213 From ...

Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949

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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949), physician and educator, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1929 to 1933. From the description of Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582818 American educator; United States secretary of the interior, 1929-1933; president, Stanford University, 1916-1943. From the description of Ray Lyman Wilbur papers, 1906-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867219 ...

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940

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Zinsser (Columbia, M.D. 1903) was Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1940, chief of bacteriological services at Children's and Infants' Hospital, and consultant in bacteriology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research included the development of a vaccine for typhus, work on the etiology of rheumatic fever, host response to syphilis, nature of the antigen-antibody reaction, the measurement of virus size, and studies ...

Ricketts, Howard Taylor, 1871-1910

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Pathologist. B.S., University of Nebraska, 1894. M.D., Northwestern University, 1897. Research fellow in pathology, Rush Medical College, 1898-1900. Associate in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Chicago, 1902-1904; assistant professor, 1904-1910. Professor of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, 1910. From the description of Papers, 1891-1977 (inclusive), 1891-1910 (bulk). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246913 ...

Blake, Clarence J. (Clarence John), -1919

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Blake (Harvard, M.D. 1865) was Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology at Harvard Medical School from 1907 to 1913. He studied at the University of Vienna in 1866, returning to Boston to practice. He began teaching in 1870 and was aural surgeon to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1871 throughout his career; he was also, at different times, president of the Infants' Hospital, manager of Children's Hospital, editor of the American Journal of Otology, and author of a st...

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

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Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Henry S. Pritchett papers, 1876-1967 (bulk 1900-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061298 Biographical Note 1857, Apr. 16 Born, Fayette, Mo. 1875 A.B.,...

Barkan, Adolph.

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Stanford University. Medical School.

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Stillman, John Maxson, 1852-1923

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John Maxson Stillman was professor of chemistry at Stanford University. From the description of Relations of salary to title in American universities : correspondence and article, 1906-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864061 Biographical/Historical Sketch John Maxson Stillman was professor of chemistry at Stanford University. From the guide to the Relations of salary to title in American universities co...