Background
Brewer, George Emerson was born on July 28, 1861 in Westfield, New York, United States. Son of Francis B. and Susan H. (Rood) Brewer.
Brewer, George Emerson was born on July 28, 1861 in Westfield, New York, United States. Son of Francis B. and Susan H. (Rood) Brewer.
Bachelor of Arts, Hamilton College, 1881, Master of Arts, 1884, Doctor of Laws, 1916. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1885. Honorary Doctor of Science, Columbia University, 1929.
Degree in 1885. He worked at the Columbia Hospital for Women and Johns Hopkins Hospital before starting work in New York in 1887. He also began teaching at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was the author of Textbook on Surgery and Surgical Diagnosis.
Hamilton College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1916, and Columbia University awarded him Doctor of Science. (honorary) in 1929.
He became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1920. In 1917 he, along with 22 other doctors and 65 nurses from the Presyterian Base Unit of the American Red Cross, travelled to France on active duty in the First World War.
Brewer became the Director of Base Hospital 2 in Etretat. In August 1917 he was part of an American surgical team, which also included Harvey Cushing, who tried to save Lieutenant
Edward Revere Osler, the only son of Sir William Osler, who was wounded at the 3rd battle of Ypres.
In 1918 he became Consulting Surgeon to the 42nd Division of the American Expeditionary Force, and later became Chief Consultant to the First Army. He retired in 1928, and travelled to France to study anthropology, and was made Research Associate of Somatic Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History on his return to the United States.
Married Effie Leighton Brown, June 29, 1893.