Samuel Johnson Walker Jr. (S&B 1888)
Yale University. Skull and Bones. Eta Phi. Psi Upsilon.
Member Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Pediatric Society (President 1904-05), Society of Internal Medicine, Chicago Institute of Medicine (director at time of his death), American Medical Association (acted as secretary to the Pediatric Section which met in Chicago a few years before his death), National Association for the Study of Epilepsy, and St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church, Chicago; President Yale Club of Chicago 1913-15.
Former member of Medical Board of St. Luke’s Hospital.[4]
Instructor in department of nervous and mental diseases at Northwestern University for several years.[4]
Connected with Chicago Polychnic Post-graduate School and Hospital since 1900 (assistant professor of neurology 1900-08; attending physician and professor of pediatrics 1908-1919; member consulting staff since 1919).[4]
WW1 - Oct 1918 - Sailed for the Near East, having the rank of Major in the U S. Army.[4] Had his Headquarters in Athens, but worked in adjacent countries as well; in charge of a medical unit at Kavala, Macedonia, during the typhus fever epidemic in April, 1919. Decorated with the Greek War Cross and with the Gold Cross of the Order of the Redeemer in July, 1919; returned to this country in the summer of 1919 and was given discharge on July 23;
WW1 - Summer 1918 - served on medical staff at the Junior Plattsburg Training Camp in the , and the following September entered the service of the American Red Cross as a deputy commissioner.[4]
1912 to 1924 - attending physician to Henrotin Hospital.[4]
1908 to 1920 - Attending physician to Children’s Hospital, and then consulting physician for four years (president of the staff for several years prior to his entering the Army in 1918).[4]
1908 to 1919 - Instructor, and later extra-mural clinic professor, at Rush Medical College.[4]
1902 - Co-editor with Dr. Walter S. Christopher of the Practical Medical Tear Book (in the volume on “Diseases of Children”); had written a number of papers which were read at meetings of different medical societies, but had published only a few;
1901 to 1918 - Attending physician to Passavant Memorial Hospital, and since then on the consulting staff.[4]
9 May 1894 - Married Bertha Elizabeth, daughter of J. Frailey and Harriet Louise (Hinckle) Smith. Children: Samuel Johnson, Jr., ‘17, and Helen Louise (Mrs. Stanislaw Szukalski). Mrs. Walker died August 20,1919.
1893 to 1894 - Interne at St Luke’s Hospital, Chicago, had since practiced medicine in Chicago, becoming widely known as a diagnostician and internist, and later as a pediatrician, attending physician to St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum 1900-1912, continuing as a member of the staff, although inactive, until 1924;
1892 to 1893 - Northwestern University (M D 1893).[4] 1890 to 1892 - Studied medicine in Germany.[4] 1888 to 1890 - Engaged in business in Chicago.[4] 1888 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 19 Aug 1924, from Cerebral Hemorrhage. Age 56.[4]
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[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 108 / On the page 1379
[5] - Geni.com - Samuel Johnson Walker Jr. (S&B 1888)
[6] - Find a Grave.com - Samuel Johnson Walker Jr. (S&B 1888)
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