Background
Thomas, Flavel Shurtleff was born on September 7, 1852 in Hanson, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Isaac and Abby (Shurtleff) Thomas.
Thomas, Flavel Shurtleff was born on September 7, 1852 in Hanson, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Isaac and Abby (Shurtleff) Thomas.
Educated Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1874. Cornell Univercity; Master of Arts, Shurtleff College, 1876.
Boston University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Massachusetts Institute, Technology.
V.S., Montreal Veterinary College, 1879. Bachelor of Science, Syracuse University, 1885, Master of Science, 1886.
Doctorate.V.Sc., McGill University, 1890. (Doctor of Laws, Shurtleff, 1892.
Diploma, December, 1907, as one of Authors’ League of America Health League of the American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Has devoted much time to zoölogy, comparative medicine, preventive medicine and university education, administration, and degrees. Town physical, school physical, inspector of animals, physical to Gordon Rest, and to Maquan Sanatorium. One of editors of Standard Dictionary of the English Language.
Author: A Dictionary of University Degrees.
Also of the work on university degrees and education in the Standard Dictionary.
Mason.
Married Caroline Moore Smith, July 9, 1879.