Background
STRONC, Richard Pearson was born on March 18, 1872 in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel Richard P. and Marion B. (Smith) Strong.
STRONC, Richard Pearson was born on March 18, 1872 in Fortress Monroe, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel Richard P. and Marion B. (Smith) Strong.
Yale, Bachelor of Philosophy, 1893. Johns Hopkins, 1897, Doctor of Medicine, Yale, Doctor of Science, (Honorary) 1914. Harvard, (Honorary) Doctor of Science., 1916.
President Board for Investigation Tropical Dis. in the Philippine Islands, 1899-1901. Established, directed Army Pathological Laboratory, Manila, Philippine Islands. Director Government Biological Laboratory, Manila, 1901-1913.
Sent by Government, to Berlin for scientific investigation, 1903. Delegate., International Congress Hygiene and Demography, 1907. Prof, of Tropical Medical, College Medical & Surgeon, University of Philippines, 1907-1913.
Chief of Medical Department, Philippine Islands General Hospital., 13. Editor, Medical Section, Philippine Jour. Science, Manila, 1906-1913.
American Delegate., International Plague Conference, Peking. 1911; Prof, of Tropical Medical, Harvard U. Medical School, since 1913. Director International and American Red Cross Sanitary Commissioners, Serbia, 1915.
Chairman, American Financial and Commercial Commission. Brazil, 1916; member Medical Advisory Board Council National. Defense, 1917; member Foreign Service Committee, National.
Research Council to France, England, 1917.
Spouse Agnes Leas Freer, January 1, 1916, Ann Arbor, Michigan.