Harold Leighton Foss

Background

Foss, Harold Leighton was born on February 14, 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Eliphalet J. and Louise W. (Sanborn) Foss.

Education

Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1909. Honorary Doctor of Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1933. Graduate study, University of Pennsylvania, 1912-1913.

Student Berlin, Vienna, 1914.

Career

Resident physician Philadelphia General Hospital, 1909-1910. Surgeon in chief Fairhaven Hospital, Candle, Alaska, 1911-1912. Assistant surgeon Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1913-1915.

Surgeon in chief and chief of staff Geisinger Memorial Hospital, Danville, Pennsylvania, since 1915.

Consultant surgeon Pennsylvania State Hospital for Insane.

Achievements

• Harold Leighton Foss has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Founders Group, American Board of Surgery. Regent and fellow American College Surgeons (president 1952-1953). Member of the American Medical Association, Pan-Pacific, American, Southern surgical associations, Detroit Academy Surgery, Pennsylvania Medical Society, American Hospital Association, American Association Railway Surgeons, American Association for Study of Goiter, Association Ex-Resident Physicians of Mayo Clinic (president 1917-1919), Society International de Chirg., Nu Sigma Nu, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Captain Civil Air Patrol.

Mason (33 degree).; Clubs: Edgartown Yacht, North American Yacht Racing Union.

Connections

Married Isabel Grier Polk, June 22, 1917. Children: Mistress Elizabeth F. Foster, Mistress Barbara Foss Markle.

Father:

Eliphalet J. Foss

Mother:

Louise West. (Sanborn) Foss

Spouse:

Isabel Grier Polk

child:

Mistress Elizabeth F. Foster Foss

child:

Mistress Barbara Foss Markle Foss