Background
Bloss, James Ramsdell was born on September 5, 1881 in Ceredo, West Virginia, United States. Son of Hiram Wesley and Carrie Lee (Ramsdell) Bloss.
Bloss, James Ramsdell was born on September 5, 1881 in Ceredo, West Virginia, United States. Son of Hiram Wesley and Carrie Lee (Ramsdell) Bloss.
Doctor of Medicine University of Virginia, 1905.
Muessette A. Hollobaugh, July 14, 1932. Interne Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Hospital, 1905. Assistant superintendent Huntington Eastern State Hospital for the Insane, 1906-1913.
Practiced at Huntington since 1913.
Obstetrician in charge of department, C.&O. Hospital, Huntington. Former lecturer on obstetrics for nurses, Saint Mary's Hospital, member attending staff same (president 1934).
Visiting staff Memorial Hospital, Huntington. Editor West Virginia Medical Journal.
1916-1926, assistant editor, 1926-1927, editor, 1927-1937, editor emeritus since 1937.
Former examiner Mental Hygiene Commission, Cabell Company, West. Virginia Medical examiner Selective Draft Board, Huntington. World War I; patron Smithsonian Institution. Founder and sustaining member of United States Committee of the World Medical Association Diplomate American Board Obstetrics, Gynecology.
F.A.C.S., Academy International Medicine, American Medical Association (house of delegates, 1920-1935.
Trustee 1935-1945; chairman section obstetrics and gynecology 1950). American Association Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons (secretary 1936-1947, president 1948-1949), American Psychiatric Association.
Member West. Virginia Obstetric and Gynecological Society (secretary-treasurer 1936. president 1943), West Virginia State Medical Association (president 1926. Chairman maternal welfare committee), Southern Medical Association (member of council 1932-1938.
Chairman, 1935; vice chairman secretary of obstetrics 1935, Chairman 1936).
Southern Association Railway Surgeons. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Surgeons Association, West Virginia Academy Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Railway Surgeons.
Member attending staff same (president 1934). Member of United States Committee of the World Medical Member of council 1932-1938.
Married Garnett Lucille Coleman, October 17, 1906 (died February 11, 1930).