Robert Alway Peers

Background

Peers, Robert Alway was born on December 13, 1875 in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Son of Richard and Margaret Hatch (Alway) Peers.

Education

Student Woodstock (Ontario) College Institute, 1888-1892, Albert College, Belleville, Ontario, 1892 and 1893. Fellow Trinity Medical College, Toronto, 1894-1899. F.T.M.C., Trinity University, Toronto, Canada, 1899, Doctor of Medicine Certificated Master, 1899.

Career

Naturalized American citizen, 1904.

Achievements

• Robert Alway Peers has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: A Primer for the Tuberculous and other Essays on Tuberculosis, 1930.

Membership

Member first. California Tuberculosis Commander, 1914. Member of advisory board Auburn Branch Bank of America, 1929-1946. Served as captain, American Red Cross, World War I.

Member California Department, Public Health, 1914-1931.

Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Chest Physicians, American Academy Tuberculosis Physicians. Member of national, state and local medical societies, several special medical associations, has served as president of other Executive officer of serveral.

Mason (Shriner).

Connections

Married Lucy Fitzgerald Stewart, July 20, 1901. Children: Robert Stewart, Francis Hamilton.

Father:

Richard Peers

Mother:

Margaret Hatch (Alway) Peers

Spouse:

Lucy Fitzgerald Stewart

child:

Robert Stewart Peers

child:

Francis Hamilton Peers