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.
Trask, John William was born on February 18, 1877 in Bay City, Michigan, United States. Son of William Henry and Ellen Grey (McKim) Trask.
Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1901.
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.
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.
Married Fleta Lawrence, August 23, 1902. Children: Elsie Margaret, Ethel Lawrence, John Lawrence.