Background
WESCOTT, Orville De Witt was born on July 21, 1871 in Gladbrook, Iowa, United States. Son of Deloss Gray and Mary Ruana (Dibble) Wescott.
WESCOTT, Orville De Witt was born on July 21, 1871 in Gladbrook, Iowa, United States. Son of Deloss Gray and Mary Ruana (Dibble) Wescott.
Gladbrook, Iowa High School. Capital City Commercial College, Des Moines, Iowa. Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Rush Medical College, 1904. Postgraduate work, University of Chicago, 1907.
1929, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interne, Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, Gravenhurst, Ontario, Staff Physician, Agnes Memorial Sanatorium, Denver, Colorado, 1904. Executive Secretary, Colorado State Tuberculosis Association, 1908-1909. Entered private practice, Denver, Colorado, 1909.
Appointed member, Advisory Board. City and Company Hospital, Denver, Colorado Enlisted, Iowa National Guard, Spanish American War, 1898. Served, Private Secretary, Major General Fitzhugh Lee, 7th Corps, United States.V.
Enlisted Colorado National Guard, 1910. Commander First Lieutenant, 1912, Captain, 1913, Major, 1916. Assigned Regimental Surgeon, 1917.
Commander Major and Regimental Surgeon, 157th Infantry, Medical corpus, United States army, 1917. Accompanied regiment to France, 1918. Army of Occupation, Coblenz, Germany, 1919.
Assigned to duty, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado, 1919. Honorably discharged, United States Army, 1919. Commander Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army Reserve Corps, 1925.
Commander Surgeon, United States Public Health Service. Reserve Corps, 1920; assigned District Medical Officer, Federation Board Vocational Education. District Medical Officer, District Northern 11, upon organisation of the United States Veterinary Bureau, 1922.
Transferred, Central Office, United States Veterinary Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia, Chief Tuberculosis Division, 1924. Medical Officer in Charge, United States Veterinary Bureau. Legion, Texas. Wrote an Educational Leaflet for Colorado State Tuberculosis Association (awarded Gold Medal at International Congress on T.B., Washington, District of Columbia), 1908.
Member National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, American Medical Association, Denver Medical Science. Member Iowa Volunteer Infantry, April-November, 1898, Spanish-American War. Member Colorado National Guard, 1910.
Mason (32 degree, Shriner). Clubs: University, Denver Athletic, Lakewood Country.
Married Sue May Gailey, Alexandria, Louisiana, October 8, 1910.