Hector Holdbrook Howard

Background

Howard, Hector Holdbrook was born on October 30, 1873 in Carthage, Mississippi, United States. Son of Hector Holdbrook and Susan Anne (Slaughter) Howard.

Education

Doctor of Medicine Memphis Hospital College, 1910.

Career

Field director Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, 1912-1913. Director experimental campaign International Health communications of Rockefeller Foundation against ankylostomiasis in British Guiana, for British Colonial Government, 1914. Director for West Indies of International Health Board of Rockefeller Foundation, September 1914, later associate director International Health Board, now retired, resumed limited medical practice for duration of war, 1942.

Spent 8 months 1916, in inaugration and prosecution of campaign for control and eradication of ankylostomiasis in Ceylon.

Achievements

• Hector Holdbrook Howard has been listed as a noteworthy physician. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Society Parasitologists, National Malaria Committee, Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Jamaica, British West Indies California California.

Connections

Married Erma Jordan, February 25, 1897. Children: Mistress Hester A. Gardner, Sue East., Hilda, Hector H. Practiced successivly in Grace, Carthage, Columbia, Hattiesburg and again in Carthage until 1912.

Father:

Hector Holdbrook Howard

Mother:

Susan Anne (Slaughter) Howard

Spouse:

Erma Jordan

child:

Hattiesburg and again in Carthage until 1912 Howard

child:

Hector H. Practiced successivly in Grace Howard

child:

Hilda Howard

child:

Mistress Hester A. Gardner Howard

child:

Sue East. Howard

child:

Carthage Howard

child:

Columbia Howard