Background
Wellman, Creighton was born on January 3, 1873 in near Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Wheeler Montgomery and Nellie Jane (Blake) Wellman.
Wellman, Creighton was born on January 3, 1873 in near Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Wheeler Montgomery and Nellie Jane (Blake) Wellman.
Central High School, Kansas City. Doctor of Medicine Medical Department, University of Kansas, Kansas City, 1894. Clinical study Rush and Cook County hospitals, Chicago.
Natural science and social science, Chicago.
Clinical pathology, England hospitals. Tropical medicine and hygiene, London School of Tropical Medicine, diploma, 1904.
Charite and National Museum, Berlin. British Museum; Smithsonian Institution.
Interne City Hospital, Kansas City, 1894-1895. Practiced Bihe District, later Bailundo District, Portuguese West Africa, with several periods of study in Europe, 1898-1907. Scientific exploration line of Lobito-Katanga Railway, 1907.
Professor tropical medicine Oakland (California) College of Medicine, 1909-1911.
Instructor summer school University of California, 1911. Professor tropical medicine, hygiene and preventive medicine, head of department and director laboratories, 1911-1912, dean School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1913-1915, Tulane University Editor American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine, 1913-1915.
Fellow and American secretary Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London. Member Societe de Medicine et d’Hygiene Tropicales de Paris, American Society Tropical Medicine (v.-p.), American Climatological Association, American Micros. Society (president), Washington Helminthological Society, Societe Entomologique de France, Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Deutsches Entomologisches Gesellschaft, Schweizes Entomologisches Gesellschaft, Societas Entomologica Zurich, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, New Orleans Academy Sciences (curator), et cetera
Member permanent committee for International Entomological Congresses.
Member Nu Sigma Nu and Stars and Bars Senior Medical Scholarship Society, Tulane (president). Club: Boston. Wrote one volunteer on insects, in series, Fauna of British India,” 1912.
Married Kathryn Edna Willis, of Buffalo, New York, July 20, 1908.