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Dr Reuben Peterson

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Dr Reuben Peterson

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
25 Nov 1942 (aged 80)
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Hemlock Avenue, lot 639, gr. 1
Memorial ID
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• son of Reuben and Julia (Beale) Peterson
• married on March 6, 1890 to Josephine Davis,
• they had four children: Reuben, Marion, Ward, and Julia
• a descendant of John Alden and George Soule, who came over in the Mayflower
• preliminary training in the common schools of Boston & Boston Latin School
• graduated from Harvard University with Bachelor of Arts (1885) & Doctor of Medicine (1889)
• went to Michigan in 1890 and began the practice of his profession at Grand Rapids.
• in 1898 removed to Chicago to accept the professorship of Gynecology at the Post-graduate Medical School
• in 1900 appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Gynecology at Rush Medical College, and in the following year he became Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Michigan,
• was a member of the American Medical Association, of the American Gynecological Society, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the Michigan State Medical Society, and of various local societies and clubs
• was president of the Chicago Gynecological Society in 1900. He was

[The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 26 Nov 1942, Thu Page 41.
Burke A. Hinsdale and Isaac Newton Demmon, History of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1906), p. 311; and contributor: JMC (47515648)]
• son of Reuben and Julia (Beale) Peterson
• married on March 6, 1890 to Josephine Davis,
• they had four children: Reuben, Marion, Ward, and Julia
• a descendant of John Alden and George Soule, who came over in the Mayflower
• preliminary training in the common schools of Boston & Boston Latin School
• graduated from Harvard University with Bachelor of Arts (1885) & Doctor of Medicine (1889)
• went to Michigan in 1890 and began the practice of his profession at Grand Rapids.
• in 1898 removed to Chicago to accept the professorship of Gynecology at the Post-graduate Medical School
• in 1900 appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Gynecology at Rush Medical College, and in the following year he became Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Michigan,
• was a member of the American Medical Association, of the American Gynecological Society, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the Michigan State Medical Society, and of various local societies and clubs
• was president of the Chicago Gynecological Society in 1900. He was

[The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 26 Nov 1942, Thu Page 41.
Burke A. Hinsdale and Isaac Newton Demmon, History of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1906), p. 311; and contributor: JMC (47515648)]


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