Background
SPENCER, Roscoe Roy was born on July 28, 1888 in King William Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Branch Worsham and Emma Roy (Burke) Spencer.
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Roscoe Roy SPENCER
Edit ProfileSurgeon United States Public Health Service
Education
University of Richmond, Bachelor of Arts, 1909. Johns Hopkins University, Doctor of Medicine, 1913.
Career
Sanitary Adviser to Commandant of the 9, 10 and 11 Naval Dists. during the World War, 1917-1918. In charge of Plague Suppressive Measures, Pensacola, Florida, 1919-1920. In •charge of Investigations of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, 1922-1930.
Discoverer of Preventive Vaccine against Rocky Mountain Fever. Author of scientific papers on Bubonic Plague, Glandular fever, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and lab. technic.
Membership
Member: American Medical Association. Washington Society of Bacteriologists. Club: Cosmos.
Connections
Spouse Mary Garland Grasty, October 23, 1915, Baltimore, Maryland.
