Background
H’Doubler, Francis Todd was born on April 22, 1887 in Beloit, Kansas, United States. Son of Chas. Wright and Sarah Emerson (Todd) H’D.
H’Doubler, Francis Todd was born on April 22, 1887 in Beloit, Kansas, United States. Son of Chas. Wright and Sarah Emerson (Todd) H’D.
Student Beloit (Wisconsin) College, 1903-1905. Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1907, Master of Arts, 1908, Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, 1910. Student Medical School, University of Wisconsin, 1911-1912, Medical School, University of Chicago, 1912, Medical School, University of Philippines, Manila, 1912-1913.
Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1915.
Assistant in mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1907-1910. Assistant professor mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, O., 1910-1911. Intern Augustana Hospital, Chicago, and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1915-1918.
Mosley traveling fellowship from Harvard in research at University of Berne (Switzerland), de Quervain Clinic, Insel Spital, Physiological Institute and European clinics, 1920.
Special resident Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, 1921. Surgical resident Augustana Hospital, 1921-1922, junior attending surgeon, 1922-1923.
Private practice with A. J. Ochsner and North. M. Percy Clinic, Chicago, 1922-1923. Instructor in pathology and surgery, University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago, 1922-1923.
Practice in Springfield, Missouri, since 1923.
Member surgical staffs of Saint John's Hospital, Burge Deaconess Hospital, Springfield Baptist Hospital. Surgical consultant Missouri State Tuberculosis Hospital, Mount Vernon, Missouri. Organized classes and taught bacteriology, Southwest Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri, 1924-1927.
Patron Smithsonian Institution.
Member board directors Springfield (Missouri) Chamber of Commerce. Member board directors Community Chest. Served as Lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, with American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919.
American College of Surgeons fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geography Society.
Member Missouri State Board Medical Examiners (vice president 1951-1952, president 1952-1953). Fellow, American, Southern, Missouri (vice president 1941, speaker 1949) medical associations, South.W. Surgical Congress (founders group), Missouri, Greene County medical societies, American Association for Study of Goiter, Association for Study Internal Secretions, American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American, New York, Missouri academics science, Missouri, Alpha Epsilon Dleta, Sigma Nu, Phi Rho Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa (associate 1948), Gamma Alpha, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
Mason. (Shriner).; Clubs: University, Hickory Hills Country (Springfield).
Married Alice Louise Bemis, August 5, 1922. Children: Alice Margaret, Francis Todd, Louise Emerson, Peter Bemis, Charles Edward.