Background
Jones, Harold Wellington was born on November 5, 1877 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Henry and Elizabeth Cook (Towne) J.: educated Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1894-1897.
Lieutenant Colonel United States Army
Jones, Harold Wellington was born on November 5, 1877 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Henry and Elizabeth Cook (Towne) J.: educated Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1894-1897.
Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1901. Army Medical School, 1905-1906 (honor graduate), Army Medical Field Service School, 1930. Doctor of Laws, Western Reserve U., 1945.
Mistress Clifford M. Esler). 1 stepson, Frank A. McGurk. Physician, Boston, 1901.
House surgeon Children’s Hospital, Boston, 1902-1903. Practicing physician, St. Louis, 1903-1905. Associate professor orthopedic surgery St. Saint Louis University Medical School, 1904-1905.
Entered Medical Corps, United States Army, 1906, captain, 1909 (temporary colonel and colonel, 1918-1919), colonel, 1932. Served in Philippines, 1906-1908, 20-23. Charge of ambulance and evacuation service, Mexican campaign, 1916.
Professor, secretary faculty Army Medical School, 1917-1918. Commander Beau Desert Hospital Center, Advertising Educational Foundation, France, 1918-1919. Chief surgical service General Hospital 41, New York, 1920, Fort Sam Houston Hospital, 1927-1933.
Commanding officer Tripler General Hospital, Hawaii, 1933-1936. Librarian Army Medical Library, Washington, 1936-1943, director, 1944-1946. Secretary general 10th International Congress Military Medicine, 1939.
Chief United States delegate 9th International Congress Military Medicine, Rumania, 1937. Member Commission Naval Experts revising Hague and Geneva Convs. (Red Cross), Geneva, 1937.
Vice president International Congress Air Relief, Budapest, 1937. Honorary curator Osier Library, Montreal, 1936-1946.
Member Commission Naval Experts revising Hague and Geneva Convs. (Red Cross), Geneva, 1937. American College of Surgeons fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Club; member Mexican Association Military Surgeons, Medical library association (president 1940, 41). Member Boylston Medical Society, Australian Computer Society (member commission on library). Clubs: Harvard (New York City).
Married Eva Ewing Munn, January 1, 1910 (died 1936). Married second, Mary Winifred Morrison, May 1, 1937.