Background
Major, Ralph Hermon was born on August 29, 1884 in Clay County, Missouri, United States. Son of John Sleet and Virginia (Anderson) Major.
Major, Ralph Hermon was born on August 29, 1884 in Clay County, Missouri, United States. Son of John Sleet and Virginia (Anderson) Major.
Bachelor of Arts, William Jewell College, 1902, Doctor of Laws,1933. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1910. Doctor of Literature, University of Cincinnati.
1952.
Student universities of Chicago, Leipzig, Munich and Heidelberg, 1903-1906.
Interne, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1910-1912. Assistant in clinic, Vienna, Austria, and Munich, 1912-1913. With department of pathology, Stanford University, 1913-1914.
Professor pathology, University of Kansas, 1914-1918.
Physician to Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 1919-1921. Professor internal medicine, University of Kansas, 1921-1949, professor of history of medicine since 1949.
Served as captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1918-1919. Member American Medical Association, American Association History Medicine (president 1950-1952), Association American Physicians, American Climatological and Clinical Association, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Nu Sigma Nu, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Nu. Club: Kansas City Country.
Married Margaret Norman Jackson, December 11, 1915. Children: Ralph Hermon, John Keene, Margaret Virginia (Mistress Downing A. Thomas).