Background
Turck, Raymond Custer was born on October 12, 1874 in Alma, Michigan, United States. Son of William S. and Louise (Ely) Turck.
Turck, Raymond Custer was born on October 12, 1874 in Alma, Michigan, United States. Son of William S. and Louise (Ely) Turck.
Alma College, 1890-1891. Graduate Michigan Military Academy, 1892. University of Michigan, medical department, 1892-1895.
Doctor of Medicine New York University, 1896.
New York Post-Graduate Medical School, 1897.
Surgeon in charge Michigan Soldier’s Home, 1897. Practiced in Lansing, Michigan, till 1898, in Chicago, 1998-1904. Medical superintendent and manager Alma Springs Sanitarium, 1904-1905.
Removed to Florida, January 1908.
Instructor, in surgery and demonstrator anatomy, Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, 1898. Professor operative surgery, 1899-1908.
Surgeon in charge Chicago Hospital, 1900-1902. Adjunct Professor surgery, University of Illinois, 1901-1904.
Professor gynecology, Dearborn Maryland.
College, 1904. Attending surgeon Chicago, Post-Graduate and Samaritan hospitals, and consultant surgeon Provident Hospital, Chicago, 1904. Chief surgeon Provident Hospital, Chicago, 1904.
Chief surgeon Saint Luke’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida.
Surgeon Florida State Board of Health, 1910-1916. Assistant surgeon, 1900, surgeon, 1901, Illinois Naval Reserves. Lieutenant 4th division, same, 1901-1904.
Lieutenant and ordnance officer, 1904-1905.
Major Medical Corps. of Florida commanding 1st Florida Field Hospital on Texas border, 1916. Assistant division surgeon 12th Division, Camp Wilson, Texas, 1917.
Adjunct Medical Officers Training Camp, Fort Oglethrope, Georgia, 1917. Division sanitary inspector, 31st Division, Camp Wheeler, Georgia, 1917.
Lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps, division surgeon, 35th Division American Expeditionary Force, April 10, 1918-March 20, 1919.
Colonel, February 26, 1919. Base surgeon Base Secretary 2, American Expeditionary Force, Francce, 1919. Wounded in action, Argonne, October 1, 1918.
Croix de Guerre (France).
Citations for service in action from Marshal Petain, General Pershing and Major General Traub. Distinguished Service Medal, 1921.
Also awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and University Palms, officer, graduate, France, 1921. Colonel commanding 124th Infantry, 1921-1925.
State health officer of Florida, 1921-1925.
Fellow American College Surgeons. Member Zeta Psi, Phi Rho Sigma. Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner).
Clubs: Florida Yacht, Seminole.
Married Bertha Bouton, August 10, 1898. Married second, Julia Maxwell Johnson, January 17, 1934. Children: Mary Hanscomb, Eleanor Louise.