Background
Kennedy, Foster was born on February 7, 1884 in Belfast, Ireland. Son of William Archer and Hessie Foster (Dill) Kennedy.
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Foster Kennedy
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Educated Queen's College, Belfast. Doctor of Medicine Royal University of Ireland, 1906.
Career
1 daughter, Hessie Juana Dill and 1 daughter by previous marriage, Isabel Ann Foster. Resident medical officer National Hospital, London, 1906. Became chief of clinic New York Neurological Institute, 1910.
Now professor neurology Cornell Univercity Medical College, New New York
Consulting physician in neuropsychiatry, Bellevue Hospital. Consulting physician Neurological Institute.
Attending neurologist to New York Hospital. Consultant neurologist to General Memorial, Lennox Hill, Women's, Monmouth (Long Branch, New Jersey) Nassau (Mineola, Long Island), Vassar Brothers hospitals Chairman committee neurology, National Research Council, Washington, District of Columbia Chairman Federal Medical Committee, Ellis Island.
Achievements
Membership
Served medecinchef Hôp. Militaire, Victoria Regina (Queen Victoria) 76, France. Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh, Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Member American Neurological Association (past president), New York Academy of Medicine, New York Neurological Society (president), New York Command British Great War Veterans American (past president).
Member Neurological Society of Paris, Hungary, Cuba, Mexico and Sweden. Clubs: Century, River, Coffee House, Pilgrims.
Connections
Married Katherine Caragol de la Terga.
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January 7, 1952 (aged 67) -
Resting place
Buried Pendleton Hill Cemetery, Rhode Island -
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Irish -
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Religion
Protestant
Awards
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Decorated Confiere la condecoracion de la Orden Nacional de Merito, Carlos F. Kinlay en el grado de Oficial, Cuba. Chevalier Legion of Honor (France).Decorated Confiere la condecoracion de la Orden Nacional de Merito, Carlos F. Kinlay en el grado de Oficial, Cuba. Chevalier Legion of Honor (France).