Background
Wilcox, Dewitt Gilbert was born on January 15, 1858 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of David Gilbert and Hannah (Whitney) Wilcox.
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Dewitt Gilbert Wilcox
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Student Buchtel College, Akron. Doctor of Medicine Cleveland Hospital Medical College, 1880. Post-graduate work, Saint Bartholomew Hospital, London, England., 1882-1883.
New York Post-Graduate School, 1887.
Career
Began practice at Akron, O., 1880. Moved to Buffalo, New York, 1887. Attending surgeon, Buffalo Homoe.
Hospital, 1890-1908, Erie County Hospital, 1892-1898.
Surgeon-in-chief of Lexington Heights Hospital, 1890-1909. Professor gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, 1909-1932.
Retired after 59 years of service, June 15, 1939. Appointed surgeon Massachusetts State Guard with rank of captain, by Governor McCall.
Attached to Massachusetts State Base Hospital, Commonwealth Armory.
Attending surgeon Newton Hospital, 1918-1932. Attending gynecologist Westboro Eastern State Hospital, 1920-1932. Was the first to operate on criminal’s brain, 1909, for purpose of effecting change in character, F.A.C.S.
Member of the American Medical Association, American Institute Homoeopathy (president 1914), Phi Delta Theta.
Ex-president New York State Homeoe. Society Ex-president Boston Baptist Sociological Union.
Author: Health Hygiene, Happiness, 1910. Physical Awakening of the Boy, 1911.
Home: 118 Homer Saint, Newton Center Master of Arts‡.
Achievements
Membership
Member of the American Medical Association, American Institute Homoeopathy (president 1914), Phi Delta Theta.
Connections
Married Jennie Green, 1883. Children: Margaret (Mistress John M. Colony), Helen (Mistress Jacob H. Randolph), John Maxson (Doctor of Medicine), DeWitt Gifford (killed in World War, 1918).
