Background
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of businessman Samuel Gorham and his wife Abby Harding Fish, he was educated in local schools before graduating from Providence High School in 1889 and matriculating to Brown University.
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Frederic Poole Gorham
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Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 1893, Master of Arts, 1894. Special studies in bacteriology, Harvard Medical School.
Career
Thereafter he became an assistant professor in 1899, then associate professor in 1901. While doing so, he attended a series of lectures at Harvard University during 1902−1903. In 1913 he established bacteriology as a field of study at Brown University, becoming Professor of Bacteriology.
In 1899, he was appointed bacteriologist for the Providence Department of Health, a post he occupied until 1933—primarily in an advisory capacity.
He became secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Rhode Island State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1908. After helping to found the Society of American Bacteriologists, in 1911 he was named president of the organization.
Two years later he became a bacteriologist for the Rhode Island Shellfish Commission, and in 1914 the deputy milk inspector for Providence. He served as chairman of the Laboratory Section for the American Public Health Association, and during 1925–1931 he served with the city park commission.
In 1933, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brown University, but died of a heart attack before he could receive lieutenant
Achievements
Membership
Member: Society American Bacteriologists. American Association Pathologists & Bacteriologists. Washington Academy, of Sciences.
Rhode Island Medical Society.
Connections
Married Emma Mary Lapham, June 24, 1897 (died 1913). Married second, Ruth Elizabeth Björkdahl, January 1, 1917. Children: Mary Emma, Sayles, Nancy, Hope.
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Nationality
American