Background
Torian, Oscar Noel was born on October 6, 1875 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Augustine Garnett and Anna Shelby (Boswell) Torian.
Torian, Oscar Noel was born on October 6, 1875 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Augustine Garnett and Anna Shelby (Boswell) Torian.
Bachelor of Arts, University of the South, 1896. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1900.
Interne King’s County Brooklyn) Hospital, 1900-1901. Assistant in pediatrics, 1908, associate and then clinical professor, 1915-1920, professor pediatrics, 1920-1941, emeritus professor, 1941-1971, Indiana U. School Medicine. Staff physician Riley, Methodist (member board) and Saint Vincent’s hospitals.
Member Indiana Committee Child Health and Maternal Welfare (chairman of pediatric section).
Pediatrician of Emerald-Hodgson Hospital, Sewanee, Tennessee, since 1941, Licentiate American Board of Pediatrics. Former trustee University of the South (member board regents).
Member Indiana Committee Child Health and Maternal Welfare (chairman of pediatric section). Member American Medical Association, Central States Pediatrics Society, American Academy Pediatrics (chairman Indiana committee), Indiana Pediatric Society (president 1938), Tennessee State Medical Society, Franklin County Medical Society, Phi Rho Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Theta. Clubs: East.Q.B., Sewanee Golf.
Married Sarah Hodgson, September 19, 1907. Children: Anna Garnett, Telfair Hodgson (deceased), John Potter (deceased).