Background
Foster, George Burgess was born on July 27, 1884 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Burgess and Maria Christine (Hanson) Foster.
Foster, George Burgess was born on July 27, 1884 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Burgess and Maria Christine (Hanson) Foster.
Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1907. Honorary graduate, Army Medical School, Washincton, 1910. Doctor Ph., Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1917.
Graduate Medical Field Service School (Army), Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1921, advanced course, 1929.
Intern Philadelphia General Hospital, 1907-1909. Commissioned First lieutenant, Medical corpus, United States army, 1909, advancing through the grades to brigadier general, 1944. Served overseas in Philippine Islands, Hawaii and France.
Commanding officer, O’Reilly General Hospital, 1941-1944.
Commanding general O’Reilly General Hospital, 1944-1946. Retired with rank of brigadier general, 1946.
Medical director Cambridge (Massachusetts) City Hospital since 1946.
Fellow American College Physicians, American Medical Association. Member Military Surgeons United States, American Public Health Association, American, Massachusetts hospital associations, Pathology Society Philadelphia, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Hospital Assembly.
Club: Harvard (Boston).
Married Sara Ellis Thomas, September 4, 1912. Children: Ellis Anne (Mistress William R. Lonsdale), George Burgess III, Katherine Christine (Mistress Charles Stuart O’Malley, Junior.