Background
Blain, Alexander William was born on March 4, 1885 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Alexander William and Mary (Gray) Blain.
Blain, Alexander William was born on March 4, 1885 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Alexander William and Mary (Gray) Blain.
Doctor of Medicine Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery, 1906. Honorary Master of Science, Wayne University, 1930.
III, Doctor of Medicine Shirley Ruth (Mistress Robert L. Berry), Donald Gray Doctor of Medicine Assistant H.O. Walker, 1903-1906. Interne Harper Hospital, 1906-1917. Senior surgical resident, 1907-1908, junior surgeon, 1910-1917.
Senior surgeon Detroit Memorial Hospital, 1917-1922, now consulting surgeon.
Consulting surgeon, Receiving, Eloise Hospitals. Professor physiology, School of Dentistry, Wayne University, 1909-1911, surgical pathology, School of Medicine, 1911-1929, professor since 1929.
Chief of staff, Blain Clinic. Senior surgeon Alexander Blain Hospital, Detroit.
Michigan, since 1924.
President Detroit Museum of Science Society. Director Gorgas Memorial Institute. Member Public Welfare Comnm., Detroit, 1926-1933, president, 1931-1932.
Member Superintendent of Poor of Wayne County, 1926-1933.
Member communications of Conservation, State of Michigan, 1939-1945.
Fellow Royal Society Arts, New York Academy Sciences, Australian Computer Society (governor), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit Academy Surgery. Member board), Detroit Zoological Society (trustee), Detroit Academy Natural Sciences, Detroit Board of Commerce. Member Flint Academy.
Member American Society Mammalogists, American Ornithologists Union, Wilson Ornithological.
Club, Cooper Ornithological. Club, Wayne Company Medical Society (ex-president), New York Academy Sciences, Cranbrook Institute of Science (member board of trustees), American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, American Forestry Association, National Audubon Society, Zoological Societies of New York and Philadelphia, Alumni Association of Wayne U. (president 1939-1940), Nu Sigma Nu, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner). Clubs: Royal Societies (London).
Member editorial board, Revista Argentino-Norteamericana de Ciencias Medicos.
Married Ruby Johnson, June 14, 1918. Children: Alexander William