Edward Hercules Carleton

Background

Carleton, Edward Hercules was born on October 25, 1904 in Ayer, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Phillips Alexander and Susan Lillian (Smith) Carleton.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, University Louisville.

Career

Intern, Louisville General Hospital, 1932-1934. General practice medicine, Louisville, 1934-1935, practice orthopedic surgery, 1935-1937. Assistant resident physician Wheelwright (Kentucky) Coal Mine, Inland Steel Company, 1937-1940.

Assistant medical director Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, Indiana, 1940-1944, medical director 1944-1953, general medical director, 1953-1969, in charge of health and industrial hygiene for entire company and its subsidiaries.

Liaison representative North.W. Indiana area on Chicago Medical Civil Defense Committee. Member technical committee President's Conference on Industrial Safety.

Member of advisory committee Research Council for Economics Security.

Achievements

• Edward Hercules Carleton has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member visiting committee Harvard School Public Health. Member medical committee and research advisory council Mellon Institute Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Member professional advising committee Portal House, Chicago.

Fellow Central States Society Industrial Medicine and Surgery.

Member American College Preventive Medicine, Medical Directors Club Chicago, American Medical Writers Association, American Foundrymen’s Society, American Medical Association, World (member United States committee), Indiana, Lake County medical associations, Order Kentucky Colonels, American Academy Political and Social Sciences, North.A.M. (member subcommittee on industrial health industry liaison group), American Forestry Association, Chicago Association Commerce and Industry (member cleaner air committee), American Association Industrial Physicians and Surgeons (president 1950-1951), Occupational Health Institute (trustee), Association American Physicians and Surgs., American Industrial Hygiene Association (director) Chicago section), American Public Health Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Iron and Steel Institute, National Safety Council, National Research Council, American Institute Biological Sciences, Chamber of Commerce, Ramazzinian Society.

Connections

Married Pauline Edmonda Bessire, July 7, 1933. Children: Sue (Mistress Karl H. Brenner), Christy (Mistress Master of Laws Sass), Edward Hercules.

Father:

Phillips Alexander Carleton

Mother:

Susan Lillian (Smith) Carleton

Spouse:

Pauline Edmonda Bessire

child:

Sue Carleton (Mistress Karl H. Brenner)

child:

Edward Hercules Carleton

child:

Christy Carleton (Mistress Master of Laws Sass)