Background
Swan, John Mumford was born on January 23, 1870 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of John Mumford and Annie Frances Greene (Taggert) Swan.
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John Mumford Swan
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Graduate Rogers High School, Newport, 1887. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1893.
Career
Demonstrator osteology and assistant demonstrator anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, 1895-1904. Instructor clinical pathology and instructor tropical medicine, Philadelphia, Polyclinic and College for Grades. in Medicine, 1904-1910. Associate professor clinical medicine, Medico-Chirurgical Colonel of Philadelphia, 1909-1910.
Medical director The Glen Springs, Watkins, New York, 1910-1912.
Commissioned First lieutenant Medical Reserve Corps, Army of the United States, December 9, 1915. Major, April 9, 1917.
Lieutenant colonel, August 20, 1918. Commanding officer Base Hospital 19, July 1918 to demobilization, May 1919.
Active service at Vichy, France.
Chief medical service Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Massachusetts, May-August 1919. Discharged August 18, 1919. Citation from commanding general American Expeditionary Force, April 1919, “for especially meritorious and conspicuous service at Base Hospital 19.” Field representative American Red Cross, Dominican Republic and Haiti, 1919-1920.
Colonel, Medical Reserve, United States Army, May 1923.
Colonel Auxiliary Reserve, United States Army, January 1934.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College of Physicians, College Physicians Philadelphia. Member American Climatological and Clinical Association, American Academy Political and Social Science, American Medical Association, American Cancer Society (state secretary New York State Division), Military Order Foreign Wars, Association Military Surgeons of the United States American Legion Post Northern 194 (commander 1942), American Society Tropical Medicine (president 1921).
Connections
Married Sara Halyday Raymond, December 16, 1896 (died October 13, 1949).
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Resting place
buried Arlington National Cemetery. -
Nationality
American