Background
Truitt, Ralph Purnell was born on August 4, 1885 in Snow Hill, Maryland, United States. Son of George Worthington and Gertrude Duncan (Purnell) Truitt.
Truitt, Ralph Purnell was born on August 4, 1885 in Snow Hill, Maryland, United States. Son of George Worthington and Gertrude Duncan (Purnell) Truitt.
Graduated from the high school, Snow Hill, student Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Doctor of Medicine, University of Maryland, 1910.
1 son, James McConnell. Intern University Hospital, Baltimore, 1909-1910. Junior assistant physician New Jersey State Hospital, Trenton, 1910-1912.
Psychiatrist in chief City Hospital (insane department), Baltimore, Maryland, 1912.
Assistant resident Psychiatrist Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1913-1914. Clinical director Louisiana Eastern State Hospital, Jackson, Louisiana, 1915.
Senior physician New Jersey Eastern State Hospital, 1916-1917. Lieutenant, captain and major Medical corpus, United States army, 1917-1919.
Medical director Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene and assistant professor neurology and psychiatry, University of Illinois Medical Department, 1919-1923.
Director Child Guidance Clinic Demonstration under auspices National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Los Angeles, California, 1924. Director Division on Prevention of Delinquency, Commonwealth Fund Program, New York, 1925-1927. Associate professor psychiatry and director psychiatric clinic, U. Maryland, 1927-1946, professor clinical psychiatry and chief of psychiatric service, 1946-1950, chairman of the department of psychiatry, 1948-1950.
Member American Psychiatric Association, American Orthopsychiatric Association (president 1935-1936), Phi Sigma Kappa.
Married Eleanor McConnell, September 2, 1920 (died 1946).