Background
TAPPAN, John W. was born on September 12, 1867 in Ogden, Riley Company, Kansas. Son of John Eliot and Margaret A. (Wilson) Tappan.
Surgeon United States Public Health Service
TAPPAN, John W. was born on September 12, 1867 in Ogden, Riley Company, Kansas. Son of John Eliot and Margaret A. (Wilson) Tappan.
Public and Private Schools. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Virginia., Doctor of Medicine, 1898.
Appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service., 1899. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 1917. Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1921, Surgeon since 1925.
Author of various papers on medical subjects pertaining to public health.
Member: (F.) El Paso Company Medical Society (Past President). (F.) American College Physicians. (F.) Southwestern Medical and Surgical Association.
(F.) Association of Military Surgeons.
Spouse Marion F. Weil, October 1, 1912, El Paso, Texas.