Charles Weer Goff

Background

Goff, Charles Weer was born on June 4, 1897 in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward L. and Cora (Weer) Goff.

Education

Student Augustana College, 1916. Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1920, Doctor of Medicine 1923. Special orthopedic student European clinics, 1937-1939.

Student anthropology Columbia, 1945-1946, Yale, 1946-1949, Harvard, 1949-1951.

Career

1 son, Michael Harper. Married second, Mary Magdalen Lachkareff, September 4, 1934. 1 stepson, George deHahn.

International Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1923-1926.

With traumatic clinic, South Manchester, 1926-1928. Surgeon, Hartford, Connecticut, 1928-1930.

Assistant orthopedic surgeon Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, 1930-1942, associate, 1943-1948, visiting, 1949-1955, consultant, 1956-1975. Assistant orthopedic surgeon Newington (Connecticut) Home and Hospital for Crippled Children, 1931-1942, attending orthopedic surgeon, 1943-1963, consultant, 1963-1975, chairman medical staff, 1948-1950.

Assistant clinical professor orthopedic surgery Yale, 1948-1955, associate orthopedic surgeon, lecturer anatomy, 1956-1965, emeritus, 1965-1975.

Anthropologist, Adjunct Professor anthropology U. Hartford, 1964-1975. Consultant orthopedic surgeon division crippled children State Connecticut, 1949-1955, Bristol, Backus Memorial, Manchester Memorial, Day-Kimball, Bradley Memorial hospitals. Orthopedic surgeon National Foundation Infantile Paralysis, Hartford.

Attending orthopedic surgeon Veterans Home and Hospital, 1950-1955.

Company-chairman Rehabilitation Work Shop, 1948-1958.

Achievements

• Charles Weer Goff has been listed as a noteworthy orthopedic surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919, private 101st Cavalry, New York National Guard, 1923-1925, captain Connecticut National Guard, 1927-1933. American College of Surgeons fellow (chairman regional commission on trauma 1949-1959, Medical Records award 1936), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Physical Anthropology, American Association Anthropology, American Association Medical Writers, American Academy Orthopedic Surgery (lecturer). Member Association Bone and Joint Surgeons, Boston Orthopedic.

Club: Golf (Hartford).

Connections

Married Fern Harper, 1921. Married second, Mary Magdalen Lachkareff, September 4, 1934.