Background
Harper, Cornelius Allen was born on February 20, 1864 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Moses Allen and Hester (Lewis) Harper.
Harper, Cornelius Allen was born on February 20, 1864 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Moses Allen and Hester (Lewis) Harper.
Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1889, Doctor of Laws, 1945. Doctor of Medicine Columbian (now George Washington University, 1893. Doctor of Science, Lawrence College, 1941.
Practiced, Madison, Wisconsin, since 1894. Secretary, Executive officer Wisconsin State Board of Health. 1904-1943, specialist advisor of State Board Health and assistant health officer, since 1943.
President State and Provincial Health Officers North.A., 1908-1909.
Member Wisconsin Tuberculosis commission to select site and erect first Tuberculosis sanitarium in Wisconsin, 1903. Member Assembly Wisconsin legislature, 1911.
Member State Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Board, 1923. Member State Committee on National Council of Defense.
Fellow American Public Health Association. Member of the American Medical Association, Wisconsin Medical Society (president 1930-1931), Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association (director), Wisconsin Conference of Social Work (Executive Committee), Phi Kappa Psi, Madison.
Married Elisabeth L. Bowman, April. Children: Cornelius Allen (deceased), Samuel Bowman.