Background

Trask, John William was born on February 18, 1877 in Bay City, Michigan, United States. Son of William Henry and Ellen Grey (McKim) Trask.

Education

Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1901.

Career

Assistant Surgeon United States Public Health Service., 1902. Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1907. Surgeon 1914; Medical Director 1930. Charge Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics, with rank of Assistant Surgeon General, 1909-1918. Medical Director United States Employees Compensation Commission, 1918-1922.

Works

• Other Work

  • Editor Public Health Reports and charge Division Sanitary Reports and Statistics, United States Public Health Service, 1909-1918.

Membership

Served at Detroit. Fort Stanton (New Mexico), Washington. Member sub-coms. on tuberculosis and statistics Committee Hygiene and Sanitation of General Medical Board and sub-commission on information and statistics of Committee Labor of Council National Defense, 1917-1918. Fellow American College of Physicians.

Member of the American Medical Association, American Public Health Association (chairman section vital statistics, 1915-1918), Massachusetts Medical Society, Phi Rho Sigma.

• Member of American Medical Association. Assn, of Military Surgeons of the United States. American Public Health Association.

Connections

Married Fleta Lawrence, August 23, 1902. Children: Elsie Margaret, Ethel Lawrence, John Lawrence.

Father:

William Henry Trask

Mother:

Ellen Grey (McKim) Trask

Spouse:

Fleta Lawrence

child:

Elsie Margaret Trask

child:

Ethel Lawrence Trask

child:

John Lawrence Trask