Background
Blumer, George Alder was born on May 25, 1857 in Sunderland, England. Son of Doctor Luke and Mary Jane (Bone) Blumer.
Blumer, George Alder was born on May 25, 1857 in Sunderland, England. Son of Doctor Luke and Mary Jane (Bone) Blumer.
Educated at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. At Moravian School, Neuwied-on-Rhine. Germany; Lycee Corneille de Rouen, France.
University of Durham, England, and University of Edinburgh: Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1879.
Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1884. Doctor of Letters, Brown University, 1905.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Hamilton, 1921.
June 23, 1886 (died 1937). Children—Thomas Spriggs, Mistress Helen Henderson Howe, Mary May, Mistress Esther Breakenridge Marshall. Resident physical Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, 1879-1880.
Assistant physical, 1880-1886, superintendent, 1886-1899, Utica Eastern State Hospital.
Physical-in-chief and superintendent Butler Hospital, Providence, 1899-1921, superintendent emeritus, 1922. Editor emeritus American Journal Psychiatry.
Lecturer on mental diseases, Albany Medical College, 1893-1899. President American Psychiatric Association, 1903, Boston Society psychiatry and Neurology, 1904, North.E. Society Psychiatry, 1917-1920.
Secretary Rhode Island School of Design.
1914-1931. President Providence Athenæum, 1923-1928. President Rhode Island History Society, 1926-1927.
Fellow American Medical Association, Rhode Island Medical Society Contributor to Dictionary of America Biography.
Home: Providence, Rhode Island
Married Helen Antoinette Spriggs. Children: Thomas Spriggs, Mistress Helen Henderson Howe, Mary May, Mistress Esther Breakenridge Marshall.