Background
Staples, O. Sherwin was born on May 19, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Oscar S. and Nellie E. (Barnes) Staples.
Staples, O. Sherwin was born on May 19, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Oscar S. and Nellie E. (Barnes) Staples.
AB, Harvard, 1930; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard, 1935.
Intern Boston City Hospital, 1935-1937. Resident Massachusetts General, Children's hospitals, Boston, 1937-1939. Assistant orthopaedic surgery (Massachusetts General Hospital), 1939-1946.
Assistant orthopaedic surgeon New England Peabody Home Crippled Children, 1939-1946. Chairman orthopaedic surgery section Hitchcock Clinic and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, 1946-1973. Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital, White River Junction, Vermont, 1947-1973, chief, orthopedic section, 1973-1981, consultant orthopedics, 1981-1992.
Assistant orthopaedic surgery Harvard Medical School, 1939-1946. Member faculty, chairman orthopaedic section Dartmouth Medical School, 1946-1973, clinical professor surgery, 1967-1973, emeritus, since 1973.
Served from captain to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1942-1945, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Member Aesculapian Club, New Hampshire Medical Society, Boylston Medical Society, Boston Orthopaedic Club (president 1960-1961), American Academy Orthopaedic Surgeons, Australian Computer Society, American Orthopaedic Association, New England Surgical Society, Society International de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie, American Orthopaedic Foot Society (founding).
Married Mable Hughes, December 11, 1945. Children– Katherine E., Thomas H.