Hugh Grant Rowell

Background

Rowell, Hugh Grant was born on November 3, 1892 in Barton Landing (now Orleans), Vermont, United States. Son of George Barker and Esther Rowan (Grant) Rowell.

Education

Student Phillips Exeter Academy. Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1915. Doctor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, 1919.

Doctor of Humanities (honorary), Suffolk University, 1953.

Career

Interne, West Surgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, 1919-1922. Assistant superintendent as director of health, public schools, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1922-1923. Assistant physician and lecturer in physical education, Columbia Teacher’s College, 1922-1927, assistant professor of health education, 1927-1936, assistant professor of education, associate general adviser, Department of Education of the Handicapped (exceptional), 1936-1943, retied September 1943.

Physician, Horace Mann Schools, 1923-1936.

Executive director Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Incorporated. A director Specialized Research, North Tarrytown, New New York

Consultant Somers Circus Museum. Delaware 6th International Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry and First International Congress for Monarchial Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland in September 1962.

Elected to Baronial Order of Magna Charta, Order Crown of Charlemagne (genealogists), Military Order Loyal Legion (past surgeon-in-chief, commander in chief), Order of the Three Crusades (treasurer, genealogist).

Achievements

• Hugh Grant Rowell has been listed as a notable author, physician, genealogist, educator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member New York League for the Hard of Hearing (member of the board of directors), School Physicians Association, Tuberculosis Association, Society Special Education, 2d White House Conference Child Welfare and Protection, History Society of the Tarrytowns, Incorporated. (president and; Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle, 32°). Clubs: Sleepy Hollow Country.

Connections

Married Sara Dennis, September 17, 1921 (deceased October 1957).

Father:

George Barker Rowell

Mother:

Esther Rowan (Grant) Rowell

Spouse:

Sara Dennis