Background
Pilcher, James Evelyn was born on March 18, 1857 in Adrian, Michigan, United States. Son of Elijah Holmes (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Phebe Maria (Fisk) P.
Pilcher, James Evelyn was born on March 18, 1857 in Adrian, Michigan, United States. Son of Elijah Holmes (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Phebe Maria (Fisk) P.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1879. Doctor of Medicine Long Island College Hospital, 1880. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1887.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Allegheny College, 1902.
Assistant surgeon United States of America, December 3, 1883. Captain assistant surgeon, December 3, 1888. Major brigade surgeon United States.V., June 4, 1898.
Retired, October 31, 1900.
Professor military surgery, Ohio Medical University, 1896-1898. Lecturer on military hygiene, Starling Medical College, 1896.
Professor military surgery, Creighton University, 1898-1899. Professor anatomy and embryology, 1899-1900, sociology and economics, 1900-1903, Dickinson College.
Professor medical jurisprudence, Dickinson School of Law, 1899-1909.
Managing editor Annals Anatomy and Surgery, 1881-1883, office editor Annals of Surgery, 1887-1889. Editor health department New York Christian Advocate, 1887-1895. Associate editor Columbus Medical Journal, 1896-1899.
Editor publications Association Military Surgeons United States, 1897-1899 and since 1901.
Enno Sander prize essayist, 1906. Editor The Military Surgeon, 1901-1909.
Honorary member American Medical Editors’ Association (president 1906). Fellow American Academy Medicine.
Author: First Aid in Illness and Injury, 1892.
Life and Labors of Elijah Holmes Pilcher, 1893. Columbus Book of the Military Surgeons, 1897. The Arms and Seals of the State of Pennsylvania (State Doctor), 1902.
The Surgeon Generals of the Army, 1905.
Member American Medical.
Married Mina Adela Parker, June 5, 1883.