Background
Welch, John Edgar was born on September 26, 1872 in near Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Son of Lawson Downs and Arabel Jane (Lemen) Welch.
Welch, John Edgar was born on September 26, 1872 in near Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Son of Lawson Downs and Arabel Jane (Lemen) Welch.
Bachelor of Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1896. Doctor of Medicine Columbia, 1900.
Bates. Interne Lincoln and New York City hospitals. 1900-1903; instructor in pathology, New York and Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Pathologist to New York Lying-In Hospital, Knickerbocker Hospital, Fordham Hospital.
Visiting physician to Knickerbocker and Fordham hospitals.
Professor of medicine, Fordham University Medical School. Director of otolaryngology, Knickerbocker Hospital.
Otolaryngologist to Saint Elizabeth and Queens General hospitals. Junior surgeon, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital Originated the human blood serum treatment for hemophelia neonatorum.
Served as First lieutenant Medical Reserve corpus, United States army, during World War. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine. Member American Board of Otolaryngology.
Member Medical Jurisprudence Society ( chairman of the board of trustees), American Medical Association, New York County Medical Society Riverside Practitioners Society, New York Otological Society (president), Phi Gamma Delta.
Married Lucy Ragsdale Bates, January 1, 1900.