Background
Woolsey, George was born on May 2, 1861 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Theodore Dwight (president Yale) and Sarah Sears (Prichard) Woolsey.
Woolsey, George was born on May 2, 1861 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Theodore Dwight (president Yale) and Sarah Sears (Prichard) Woolsey.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1881. 1 year post-graduate Sheffield Scientific School, Yale. Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), 1885.
Post-graduate work, Roosevelt Hospital, 1885-1886, Germany, and France, 1887-1888.
Professor anatomy and clinical surgery, New York University Medical School, 1890-1898, Cornell University Medical School, New York, 1898-1909. Professor clinical surgery same, 1909-1926, professor emeritus since 1926. Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital, 1890-1921, Presbyterian Hospital, 1900-1914.
Now consulting surgeon Bellevue and Memorial hospitals, New York Infirmary for Women and Children (New York), Saint John's Hospital (Yonkers), Peekskill Hospital Major Medical Officers Reserve Corps, 1917.
Fellow American Surgical Association, American College Surgeons, New York Academy Medicine. Member Society Clinical Surgery, New York Surgical Society and Clinical Society, American Medical Association, State and County medical societies. Club: Century (New York).
Married Jean Paul Ellinwood, May 12, 1892. Children: Marjorie Ellinwood (Mistress John C. Kittle), George Pierpont (deceased), Laura Hurd.