Fenwick Beekman

Background

Beekman, Fenwick was born on June 1, 1882 in New York City. Son of William Bedlow and Katherine Morris (Parker) Beekman.

Education

Student in Saint Mark’s School, Southboro, Massachusetts, 1896-1901, Columbia, 1901-1903. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1907.

Career

Consultant surgeon Hospital for Special Surgery. Consultant surgeon Lincoln and Bellevue Hospitals, North County Community Hospital, Glen Cove, New New York Consulting pediatric surgeon Fitkin Memorial Hospital (Neptune, New Jersey).

Trustee New York Society Library, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

Achievements

• Fenwick Beekman has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served American Expeditionary Force, World War, discharged as major Medical Corps. Cited for “meritorious service in Battle of Cambrai.”. Member of the American Medical Association, New York Company Medical Society, New York State Medical Society, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Surgical Society, New York and New England Association Railway Surgeons, New York History Society (trustee, past president), American Association for Surgery of Trauma, American Association Oral and Plastic Surgery, New York General and Biographical Society (trustee).

Mason.

Clubs: Union, Saint Anthony, Saint Nicholas, Grolier, Pilgrims (Executive Committee).

Connections

Married Sabina Wood Struthers, October 12, 1912. Married second, Vera Byerley Lindo, December 8, 1933. Children: Fenwick, Gerardus, Robert Struthers.