Elmer Ellsworth Heg

Background

Heg, Elmer Ellsworth was born on February 23, 1861 in Waupun, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Colonel Hans C. and Cornelia Elinong (Jacobson) Heg.

Education

Educated Beloit (Wisconsin) College, 1876-1880. Doctor of Medicine Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York University), 1887.

Career

Removed to Washington, 1888. Member Washington State Board Health, 1897-1898, and since 1902(secretary 1897-1898 and 1903-1911, and president 1912 and 1916), Seattle Board of Health, 1900-1902. State commissioner of health, Washington, April 3, 1909-October 1, 1911.

Medical director Pulmonary Hospital of Seattle, May, since 1909.

Surgeon Washington National Guard, 1896-1898. Major brigade surgeon United States volumes, July 8, 1898-May 12, 1899, on staff Major-General J. C. Bates in Cuba.

United States delegate 14th International Congress on Hygiene, Berlin, 1907.

Achievements

• Elmer Ellsworth Heg has been listed as a noteworthy physician. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Washington State Board Health, 1897-1898, and since 1902(secretary 1897-1898 and 1903-1911, and president 1912 and 1916), Seattle Board of Health, 1900-1902. Member American Medical Association (secretary section hygiene and sanitary science, 1905-1907), Washington State Medical society (secretary 1891-1892), King Company Medical Society (president 1904-1905).

Connections

Married May Thornton, of Seattle, August 13, 1890.

Father:

Colonel Hans C. Heg

Mother:

Cornelia Elinong (Jacobson) Heg

Spouse:

May Thornton