Marvin Mctyeire Cullom

Background

Cullom, Marvin Mctyeire was born on November 9, 1868 in Woodford, Tennessee, United States. Son of of Review Jeremiah Walker and Mary Bowling (Isom) C.

Education

Prepared for college at Webb School. Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1894, Doctor of Medicine 1896. Graduate Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 1898.

Post-graduate study in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

Career

Practiced at Nashville, Tennessee, since 1899. Professor clinical ophthalmology and otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University. Eye, ear, nose and throat surgeon to Saint Thomas Hospital.

Consultant oculist, Louisville & Nashville Railway.

Head of department of ophthalmology and otolaryngology, Nashville General Hospital Trustee Vanderbilt University, Webb School. Member board of trustees Joint Library of Vanderbilt University, Peabody College and Scarritt College.

President of the board trust Ladies’ Hermitage Association. Commissioner of State of Tennessee to New York World’s Fair.

Colonel in the Tennessee State National Guard on the staff of Governor Prentice Cooper.

Certified ophthalmologist by the American Board of Ophthalmology. Oto-laryngologist by the American Board of Oto-Laryngology. Citation in publication Scope, also in Vanderbilt Alumnus, 1956.

Achievements

• Marvin Mctyeire Cullom has been listed as a noteworthy physician. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

American College of Surgeons fellow, Academy-International of Medicine. Member of the American Medical Association (member House of Delegates, 1923, 25, 27, 28), American Geriatric Society, Pan-American Association Ophthalmology, XVII International Congress Ophthalmology, American Laryngol., Rhinological and Otological Society, Southern Medical Association (chairman section Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 1911), Tennessee State Medical Association, International Society of Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Nashville Academy Opthal. and Otolaryngology (ex-president), Delta Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha. Member Medical Advisory Board, World War.

Mason (32°, Shriner).

Clubs: University, Old Oak, Bellemeade Golf and Country, Chamber of Commerce, Exchange, Cumberland.

Connections

Married Eva Bellinger, October 30, 1899. Children: Isabelle Payne, Hale Ellicott.

Spouse:

Eva Bellinger

child:

Isabelle Payne Cullom

child:

Hale Ellicott Cullom