Stanhope Bayne-Jones, M.D. (November 6, 1888 - February 20, 1970) was a physician, an American bacteriologist, a medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of Brigadier General.
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Detailed biography of Dr. Bayne-Jones is available at the La. Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography:
BAYNE-JONES, Stanhope, physician, medical administrator, brigadier-general. Born, New Orleans, November 6, 1888; son of Samuel Stanhope Davis Jones, M. D. (d. 1894) and Amelia Elizabeth Minna (d. 1893). Family changed his last name to Bayne-Jones in 1905. Education: Etta Finney's school, 1899; Rugby Academy, 1899-1902; Dixon Academy, Covington, 1902-1905; Thacher School, Ojai, Calif., 1905-1906; Yale University, 1906-1910; Tulane University School of Medicine, 1910-1911; University of Chicago, summer 1911; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1911-1914; M. D., 1914, first in his class. Intern in medicine, Anoca Hospital, Panama Canal Zone, June-September, 1912; Johns Hopkins Hospital, house officer in medicine, 1914-1915; assistant resident pathologist, 1915-1916; work in bacteriology and immunology with Hans Zinsser, Department of Bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1916; Rockefeller Fellow in Pathology, assistant resident in Pathology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1916-1917; M. A., Johns Hopkins University, 1917. From reserve first lieutenant to active duty as captain, Army Medical Corps in World War I: served with the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium, 1917; British Military Cross, October, 1917; Italian front, October 1917-March 1918; American Expeditionary Forces, March-December, 1918; November 9, 1918, Croix de Guerre, and promoted to rank of major; sanitary inspector in Germany, November 1918-May 1919; discharged Camp Dix, N. J., Silver Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters. Associate in Pathology and Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1917-1919; associate in Bacteriology, 1919-1920; associate professor of Bacteriology, 1920-1923. Married Nannie Moore Smith of Baltimore, June 25, 1921. Went to Europe for study of laboratories and bacteriology in London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, June-December, 1923. Professor of Bacteriology and department chairman, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1923-1932; director, Rochester Health Bureau Laboratories, 1924-1932; visiting professor of Bacteriology, University of Chicago, summer, 1929; professor of Bacteriology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1932-1947; master, Trumbull College, 1932-1938; dean, Yale University School of Medicine, 1935-1940. National Research Council, Committee on Biological Warfare, 1941-1946; Committee on Scientific Manpower Personnel, and Committee on Pathology, 1941-1942; Advisory Committee on Biological Warfare for the Secretary of War, 1941; director, Commission on Epidemiological Survey, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1941-1942. Active duty, February 11, 1942, as lieutenant colonel, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army; promoted to rank of colonel, August 28, 1942; administrator of the Army Epidemiological Board from February 1942; assistant chief, Preventive Medicine Service from May 1, 1942 to January 1, 1944; thereafter deputy chief; director of the United States of America Typhus Commission from August 21, 1943, until relieved from active duty, May 16, 1946; special mission to England, 1943 and Egypt, 1944. Promoted to rank of brigadier-general, February 25, 1944; November 28, 1945, USATC Medal; December 1945, Distinguished Service Medal, and Order of the British Empire; civilian director, USATC from May 16 to June 30, 1946. Separated from the Army, September 4, 1946. After a brief return to Yale after the war, 1946-1947, to administer research and edit Cancer Research, Bayne-Jones became president, Joint Administrative Board of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1947-1953. Retired to Washington, D. C., in 1953. For a decade and a half actively consulted with the nation's military and civilian leaders. Member, Commission on Financing Hospital Care, 1951-1954; Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1953-1965; Technical Director of Research, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1953-1956; Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1954-1963; Advisory Scientific Board, Walter Reed Institute of Research, 1954-1960; Board of Visitors, Tulane University, 1954-1965; survey of the Tulane University School of Medicine, 1955-1956; board of governors, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 1952-1970; chairman, Advisory Editorial Board, History of Preventive Medicine in World War II, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1955-1970; member, Corporation of Yale University, 1955-1956; DHEW Secretary's Consultants on Medical Research and Education, 1957-1958; Committee to Visit the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1958-1966; National Cancer Advisory Council, 1959-1961; and Board on Cancer and Viruses, 1960-1961; both agencies of the National Cancer Institute. U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, 1962-1964; National Citizen's Commission on Internatioal Cooperation, 1964-1965. Served as president of: the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1929-1930; the New York Association of Public Health Laboratories, 1929-1930; the American Association of Immunologists, 1930-1931; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 1940-1941. Other professional activities: Science Advisory Board, Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1931; Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, American Medical Association, 1931-1935; Board of Scientific Advisors, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1937-1947; U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research, 1937-1938; Board of Scientific Advisors, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-1941; board of directors, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1939-1954; advisory medical board, Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation), 1939-1957. Received numerous honors and awards of distinction: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 1914; American Philosophical Society, 1944-1970; Charles V. Chapin Memorial Award in public health, Rhode Island Medical Society, May 14, 1947; James D. Bruce Memorial Medal in preventive medicine, American College of Physicians, March 30, 1949; The Passano Award, for extraordinary service to science as an educator and administrator, June 10, 1959; Decoration for Outstanding Civilian Service, Department of the Army, June 29, 1965; Honorary Member of the United States Services Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 24, 1966. Editor of the Yale News as an undergraduate, Bayne-Jones brought a particularly disciplined mind to writing and scholarship. He published more than eighty-seven articles and chapters, and four books: Man and Microbes (1932); Hans Zinsser and Stanhope Bayne-Jones, A Textbook of Bacteriology, 7th ed. (1934); Joseph Jones, M. D., 1833-1896 (1958); The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939 (1968). During retirement worked on various medical history projects at the National Library of Medicine and Walter Reed Hospital, and elsewhere. Died, February 20, 1970; interred Arlington National Cemetery. Brigadier General Stanhope Bayne-Jones is memorialized in Louisiana by the naming of the Army community hospital at Fort Polk for him on August 12, 1983. J.P.M. Sources: The Stanhope Bayne-Jones Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; Harris D. Riley, Jr., "Doctors Joseph Jones and Stanhope Bayne-Jones: Two Distinguished Louisianians," Louisiana History, XXV (1984), 155-180.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Sandi H.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Bertha Avery-Hood
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Detailed biography of Dr. Bayne-Jones is available at the La. Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography:
BAYNE-JONES, Stanhope, physician, medical administrator, brigadier-general. Born, New Orleans, November 6, 1888; son of Samuel Stanhope Davis Jones, M. D. (d. 1894) and Amelia Elizabeth Minna (d. 1893). Family changed his last name to Bayne-Jones in 1905. Education: Etta Finney's school, 1899; Rugby Academy, 1899-1902; Dixon Academy, Covington, 1902-1905; Thacher School, Ojai, Calif., 1905-1906; Yale University, 1906-1910; Tulane University School of Medicine, 1910-1911; University of Chicago, summer 1911; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1911-1914; M. D., 1914, first in his class. Intern in medicine, Anoca Hospital, Panama Canal Zone, June-September, 1912; Johns Hopkins Hospital, house officer in medicine, 1914-1915; assistant resident pathologist, 1915-1916; work in bacteriology and immunology with Hans Zinsser, Department of Bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1916; Rockefeller Fellow in Pathology, assistant resident in Pathology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1916-1917; M. A., Johns Hopkins University, 1917. From reserve first lieutenant to active duty as captain, Army Medical Corps in World War I: served with the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium, 1917; British Military Cross, October, 1917; Italian front, October 1917-March 1918; American Expeditionary Forces, March-December, 1918; November 9, 1918, Croix de Guerre, and promoted to rank of major; sanitary inspector in Germany, November 1918-May 1919; discharged Camp Dix, N. J., Silver Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters. Associate in Pathology and Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1917-1919; associate in Bacteriology, 1919-1920; associate professor of Bacteriology, 1920-1923. Married Nannie Moore Smith of Baltimore, June 25, 1921. Went to Europe for study of laboratories and bacteriology in London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, June-December, 1923. Professor of Bacteriology and department chairman, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1923-1932; director, Rochester Health Bureau Laboratories, 1924-1932; visiting professor of Bacteriology, University of Chicago, summer, 1929; professor of Bacteriology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1932-1947; master, Trumbull College, 1932-1938; dean, Yale University School of Medicine, 1935-1940. National Research Council, Committee on Biological Warfare, 1941-1946; Committee on Scientific Manpower Personnel, and Committee on Pathology, 1941-1942; Advisory Committee on Biological Warfare for the Secretary of War, 1941; director, Commission on Epidemiological Survey, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1941-1942. Active duty, February 11, 1942, as lieutenant colonel, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army; promoted to rank of colonel, August 28, 1942; administrator of the Army Epidemiological Board from February 1942; assistant chief, Preventive Medicine Service from May 1, 1942 to January 1, 1944; thereafter deputy chief; director of the United States of America Typhus Commission from August 21, 1943, until relieved from active duty, May 16, 1946; special mission to England, 1943 and Egypt, 1944. Promoted to rank of brigadier-general, February 25, 1944; November 28, 1945, USATC Medal; December 1945, Distinguished Service Medal, and Order of the British Empire; civilian director, USATC from May 16 to June 30, 1946. Separated from the Army, September 4, 1946. After a brief return to Yale after the war, 1946-1947, to administer research and edit Cancer Research, Bayne-Jones became president, Joint Administrative Board of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1947-1953. Retired to Washington, D. C., in 1953. For a decade and a half actively consulted with the nation's military and civilian leaders. Member, Commission on Financing Hospital Care, 1951-1954; Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1953-1965; Technical Director of Research, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1953-1956; Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1954-1963; Advisory Scientific Board, Walter Reed Institute of Research, 1954-1960; Board of Visitors, Tulane University, 1954-1965; survey of the Tulane University School of Medicine, 1955-1956; board of governors, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 1952-1970; chairman, Advisory Editorial Board, History of Preventive Medicine in World War II, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1955-1970; member, Corporation of Yale University, 1955-1956; DHEW Secretary's Consultants on Medical Research and Education, 1957-1958; Committee to Visit the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1958-1966; National Cancer Advisory Council, 1959-1961; and Board on Cancer and Viruses, 1960-1961; both agencies of the National Cancer Institute. U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, 1962-1964; National Citizen's Commission on Internatioal Cooperation, 1964-1965. Served as president of: the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1929-1930; the New York Association of Public Health Laboratories, 1929-1930; the American Association of Immunologists, 1930-1931; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 1940-1941. Other professional activities: Science Advisory Board, Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1931; Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, American Medical Association, 1931-1935; Board of Scientific Advisors, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1937-1947; U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research, 1937-1938; Board of Scientific Advisors, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-1941; board of directors, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1939-1954; advisory medical board, Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation), 1939-1957. Received numerous honors and awards of distinction: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 1914; American Philosophical Society, 1944-1970; Charles V. Chapin Memorial Award in public health, Rhode Island Medical Society, May 14, 1947; James D. Bruce Memorial Medal in preventive medicine, American College of Physicians, March 30, 1949; The Passano Award, for extraordinary service to science as an educator and administrator, June 10, 1959; Decoration for Outstanding Civilian Service, Department of the Army, June 29, 1965; Honorary Member of the United States Services Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 24, 1966. Editor of the Yale News as an undergraduate, Bayne-Jones brought a particularly disciplined mind to writing and scholarship. He published more than eighty-seven articles and chapters, and four books: Man and Microbes (1932); Hans Zinsser and Stanhope Bayne-Jones, A Textbook of Bacteriology, 7th ed. (1934); Joseph Jones, M. D., 1833-1896 (1958); The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939 (1968). During retirement worked on various medical history projects at the National Library of Medicine and Walter Reed Hospital, and elsewhere. Died, February 20, 1970; interred Arlington National Cemetery. Brigadier General Stanhope Bayne-Jones is memorialized in Louisiana by the naming of the Army community hospital at Fort Polk for him on August 12, 1983. J.P.M. Sources: The Stanhope Bayne-Jones Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; Harris D. Riley, Jr., "Doctors Joseph Jones and Stanhope Bayne-Jones: Two Distinguished Louisianians," Louisiana History, XXV (1984), 155-180.
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Stanhope Bayne-Jones, M.D. (November 6, 1888 - February 20, 1970) was a physician, an American bacteriologist, a medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of Brigadier General.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Bertha Avery-Hood
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Detailed biography of Dr. Bayne-Jones is available at the La. Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography:
BAYNE-JONES, Stanhope, physician, medical administrator, brigadier-general. Born, New Orleans, November 6, 1888; son of Samuel Stanhope Davis Jones, M. D. (d. 1894) and Amelia Elizabeth Minna (d. 1893). Family changed his last name to Bayne-Jones in 1905. Education: Etta Finney's school, 1899; Rugby Academy, 1899-1902; Dixon Academy, Covington, 1902-1905; Thacher School, Ojai, Calif., 1905-1906; Yale University, 1906-1910; Tulane University School of Medicine, 1910-1911; University of Chicago, summer 1911; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1911-1914; M. D., 1914, first in his class. Intern in medicine, Anoca Hospital, Panama Canal Zone, June-September, 1912; Johns Hopkins Hospital, house officer in medicine, 1914-1915; assistant resident pathologist, 1915-1916; work in bacteriology and immunology with Hans Zinsser, Department of Bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1916; Rockefeller Fellow in Pathology, assistant resident in Pathology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1916-1917; M. A., Johns Hopkins University, 1917. From reserve first lieutenant to active duty as captain, Army Medical Corps in World War I: served with the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium, 1917; British Military Cross, October, 1917; Italian front, October 1917-March 1918; American Expeditionary Forces, March-December, 1918; November 9, 1918, Croix de Guerre, and promoted to rank of major; sanitary inspector in Germany, November 1918-May 1919; discharged Camp Dix, N. J., Silver Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters. Associate in Pathology and Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1917-1919; associate in Bacteriology, 1919-1920; associate professor of Bacteriology, 1920-1923. Married Nannie Moore Smith of Baltimore, June 25, 1921. Went to Europe for study of laboratories and bacteriology in London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, June-December, 1923. Professor of Bacteriology and department chairman, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1923-1932; director, Rochester Health Bureau Laboratories, 1924-1932; visiting professor of Bacteriology, University of Chicago, summer, 1929; professor of Bacteriology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1932-1947; master, Trumbull College, 1932-1938; dean, Yale University School of Medicine, 1935-1940. National Research Council, Committee on Biological Warfare, 1941-1946; Committee on Scientific Manpower Personnel, and Committee on Pathology, 1941-1942; Advisory Committee on Biological Warfare for the Secretary of War, 1941; director, Commission on Epidemiological Survey, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1941-1942. Active duty, February 11, 1942, as lieutenant colonel, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army; promoted to rank of colonel, August 28, 1942; administrator of the Army Epidemiological Board from February 1942; assistant chief, Preventive Medicine Service from May 1, 1942 to January 1, 1944; thereafter deputy chief; director of the United States of America Typhus Commission from August 21, 1943, until relieved from active duty, May 16, 1946; special mission to England, 1943 and Egypt, 1944. Promoted to rank of brigadier-general, February 25, 1944; November 28, 1945, USATC Medal; December 1945, Distinguished Service Medal, and Order of the British Empire; civilian director, USATC from May 16 to June 30, 1946. Separated from the Army, September 4, 1946. After a brief return to Yale after the war, 1946-1947, to administer research and edit Cancer Research, Bayne-Jones became president, Joint Administrative Board of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1947-1953. Retired to Washington, D. C., in 1953. For a decade and a half actively consulted with the nation's military and civilian leaders. Member, Commission on Financing Hospital Care, 1951-1954; Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1953-1965; Technical Director of Research, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1953-1956; Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1954-1963; Advisory Scientific Board, Walter Reed Institute of Research, 1954-1960; Board of Visitors, Tulane University, 1954-1965; survey of the Tulane University School of Medicine, 1955-1956; board of governors, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 1952-1970; chairman, Advisory Editorial Board, History of Preventive Medicine in World War II, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1955-1970; member, Corporation of Yale University, 1955-1956; DHEW Secretary's Consultants on Medical Research and Education, 1957-1958; Committee to Visit the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1958-1966; National Cancer Advisory Council, 1959-1961; and Board on Cancer and Viruses, 1960-1961; both agencies of the National Cancer Institute. U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, 1962-1964; National Citizen's Commission on Internatioal Cooperation, 1964-1965. Served as president of: the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1929-1930; the New York Association of Public Health Laboratories, 1929-1930; the American Association of Immunologists, 1930-1931; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 1940-1941. Other professional activities: Science Advisory Board, Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1931; Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, American Medical Association, 1931-1935; Board of Scientific Advisors, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1937-1947; U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research, 1937-1938; Board of Scientific Advisors, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-1941; board of directors, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1939-1954; advisory medical board, Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation), 1939-1957. Received numerous honors and awards of distinction: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 1914; American Philosophical Society, 1944-1970; Charles V. Chapin Memorial Award in public health, Rhode Island Medical Society, May 14, 1947; James D. Bruce Memorial Medal in preventive medicine, American College of Physicians, March 30, 1949; The Passano Award, for extraordinary service to science as an educator and administrator, June 10, 1959; Decoration for Outstanding Civilian Service, Department of the Army, June 29, 1965; Honorary Member of the United States Services Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 24, 1966. Editor of the Yale News as an undergraduate, Bayne-Jones brought a particularly disciplined mind to writing and scholarship. He published more than eighty-seven articles and chapters, and four books: Man and Microbes (1932); Hans Zinsser and Stanhope Bayne-Jones, A Textbook of Bacteriology, 7th ed. (1934); Joseph Jones, M. D., 1833-1896 (1958); The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939 (1968). During retirement worked on various medical history projects at the National Library of Medicine and Walter Reed Hospital, and elsewhere. Died, February 20, 1970; interred Arlington National Cemetery. Brigadier General Stanhope Bayne-Jones is memorialized in Louisiana by the naming of the Army community hospital at Fort Polk for him on August 12, 1983. J.P.M. Sources: The Stanhope Bayne-Jones Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; Harris D. Riley, Jr., "Doctors Joseph Jones and Stanhope Bayne-Jones: Two Distinguished Louisianians," Louisiana History, XXV (1984), 155-180.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Sandi H.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Bertha Avery-Hood
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Detailed biography of Dr. Bayne-Jones is available at the La. Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography:
BAYNE-JONES, Stanhope, physician, medical administrator, brigadier-general. Born, New Orleans, November 6, 1888; son of Samuel Stanhope Davis Jones, M. D. (d. 1894) and Amelia Elizabeth Minna (d. 1893). Family changed his last name to Bayne-Jones in 1905. Education: Etta Finney's school, 1899; Rugby Academy, 1899-1902; Dixon Academy, Covington, 1902-1905; Thacher School, Ojai, Calif., 1905-1906; Yale University, 1906-1910; Tulane University School of Medicine, 1910-1911; University of Chicago, summer 1911; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1911-1914; M. D., 1914, first in his class. Intern in medicine, Anoca Hospital, Panama Canal Zone, June-September, 1912; Johns Hopkins Hospital, house officer in medicine, 1914-1915; assistant resident pathologist, 1915-1916; work in bacteriology and immunology with Hans Zinsser, Department of Bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1916; Rockefeller Fellow in Pathology, assistant resident in Pathology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1916-1917; M. A., Johns Hopkins University, 1917. From reserve first lieutenant to active duty as captain, Army Medical Corps in World War I: served with the British Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium, 1917; British Military Cross, October, 1917; Italian front, October 1917-March 1918; American Expeditionary Forces, March-December, 1918; November 9, 1918, Croix de Guerre, and promoted to rank of major; sanitary inspector in Germany, November 1918-May 1919; discharged Camp Dix, N. J., Silver Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters. Associate in Pathology and Bacteriology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1917-1919; associate in Bacteriology, 1919-1920; associate professor of Bacteriology, 1920-1923. Married Nannie Moore Smith of Baltimore, June 25, 1921. Went to Europe for study of laboratories and bacteriology in London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Copenhagen, June-December, 1923. Professor of Bacteriology and department chairman, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1923-1932; director, Rochester Health Bureau Laboratories, 1924-1932; visiting professor of Bacteriology, University of Chicago, summer, 1929; professor of Bacteriology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1932-1947; master, Trumbull College, 1932-1938; dean, Yale University School of Medicine, 1935-1940. National Research Council, Committee on Biological Warfare, 1941-1946; Committee on Scientific Manpower Personnel, and Committee on Pathology, 1941-1942; Advisory Committee on Biological Warfare for the Secretary of War, 1941; director, Commission on Epidemiological Survey, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1941-1942. Active duty, February 11, 1942, as lieutenant colonel, Office of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army; promoted to rank of colonel, August 28, 1942; administrator of the Army Epidemiological Board from February 1942; assistant chief, Preventive Medicine Service from May 1, 1942 to January 1, 1944; thereafter deputy chief; director of the United States of America Typhus Commission from August 21, 1943, until relieved from active duty, May 16, 1946; special mission to England, 1943 and Egypt, 1944. Promoted to rank of brigadier-general, February 25, 1944; November 28, 1945, USATC Medal; December 1945, Distinguished Service Medal, and Order of the British Empire; civilian director, USATC from May 16 to June 30, 1946. Separated from the Army, September 4, 1946. After a brief return to Yale after the war, 1946-1947, to administer research and edit Cancer Research, Bayne-Jones became president, Joint Administrative Board of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1947-1953. Retired to Washington, D. C., in 1953. For a decade and a half actively consulted with the nation's military and civilian leaders. Member, Commission on Financing Hospital Care, 1951-1954; Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1953-1965; Technical Director of Research, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1953-1956; Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1954-1963; Advisory Scientific Board, Walter Reed Institute of Research, 1954-1960; Board of Visitors, Tulane University, 1954-1965; survey of the Tulane University School of Medicine, 1955-1956; board of governors, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 1952-1970; chairman, Advisory Editorial Board, History of Preventive Medicine in World War II, Medical Department, U. S. Army, 1955-1970; member, Corporation of Yale University, 1955-1956; DHEW Secretary's Consultants on Medical Research and Education, 1957-1958; Committee to Visit the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1958-1966; National Cancer Advisory Council, 1959-1961; and Board on Cancer and Viruses, 1960-1961; both agencies of the National Cancer Institute. U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, 1962-1964; National Citizen's Commission on Internatioal Cooperation, 1964-1965. Served as president of: the Society of American Bacteriologists, 1929-1930; the New York Association of Public Health Laboratories, 1929-1930; the American Association of Immunologists, 1930-1931; the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 1940-1941. Other professional activities: Science Advisory Board, Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1931; Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, American Medical Association, 1931-1935; Board of Scientific Advisors, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1937-1947; U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General's Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research, 1937-1938; Board of Scientific Advisors, International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-1941; board of directors, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1939-1954; advisory medical board, Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation), 1939-1957. Received numerous honors and awards of distinction: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 1914; American Philosophical Society, 1944-1970; Charles V. Chapin Memorial Award in public health, Rhode Island Medical Society, May 14, 1947; James D. Bruce Memorial Medal in preventive medicine, American College of Physicians, March 30, 1949; The Passano Award, for extraordinary service to science as an educator and administrator, June 10, 1959; Decoration for Outstanding Civilian Service, Department of the Army, June 29, 1965; Honorary Member of the United States Services Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 24, 1966. Editor of the Yale News as an undergraduate, Bayne-Jones brought a particularly disciplined mind to writing and scholarship. He published more than eighty-seven articles and chapters, and four books: Man and Microbes (1932); Hans Zinsser and Stanhope Bayne-Jones, A Textbook of Bacteriology, 7th ed. (1934); Joseph Jones, M. D., 1833-1896 (1958); The Evolution of Preventive Medicine in the United States Army, 1607-1939 (1968). During retirement worked on various medical history projects at the National Library of Medicine and Walter Reed Hospital, and elsewhere. Died, February 20, 1970; interred Arlington National Cemetery. Brigadier General Stanhope Bayne-Jones is memorialized in Louisiana by the naming of the Army community hospital at Fort Polk for him on August 12, 1983. J.P.M. Sources: The Stanhope Bayne-Jones Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; Harris D. Riley, Jr., "Doctors Joseph Jones and Stanhope Bayne-Jones: Two Distinguished Louisianians," Louisiana History, XXV (1984), 155-180.
Information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Sandi H.
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