Background
Park, Roswell was born on May 4, 1852 in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review Roswell and Mary (Baldwin) Park.
Park, Roswell was born on May 4, 1852 in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review Roswell and Mary (Baldwin) Park.
Bachelor of Arts, Racine (Wisconsin) College, 1872, Master of Arts, 1875. Doctor of Medicine Northwestern, 1876. (honorary Doctor of Medicine Lake Forest, 1892.
Master of Arts, Harvard, 1895.
Doctor of Laws, Yale, 1902).
He was also a professor of surgery at the University at Buffalo Medical School and a surgeon at Buffalo General Hospital. When Doctor Park was thirty-one he came to Buffalo, New York in 1883. He came from Chicago where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University in 1876.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1872 and Master of Arts in 1875 from Racine College in Racine, Wisconsin.
He then went on to finish his Doctor of Medicine studies at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1876. Doctor Park received an honorary Master of Arts Over the years he served on many boards, both national and international.
By 1914, the total number of textbooks, articles, and monographs that he wrote reached 167. Buffalo was the host of the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
President William McKinley was not even a year into his second term.
At the time he was staying in his summer home in Canton, Ohio. He left his summer home for the exposition fairgrounds. After a speech that he gave in the Temple of Music pavilion, Leon Czolgosz, came from the crowd and shot McKinley twice at point blank range.
McKinley was taken to a hospital on the fairgrounds.
lieutenant took nearly 40 minutes for the first surgeon to show up. Herman Mynter, a general surgeon from Buffalo, was the first to diagnose the president
After consulting with other physicians, it was agreed upon to perform an abdominal exploration of the area. Not long after Mynter"s examination was finished, Matthew Derbyshire Mann arrived.
Mann was a former dean of Buffalo Medical School and a respected surgeon.
After the two talked, it was agreed upon to perform the abdominal exploration. President McKinley agreed to the exploration. Work was done by Mann to try to find the bullet and treat the wounds.
Efforts were made to contact Doctor Park, but he was in the middle of a neck dissection at Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital.
As described years later by Park"s son, the messenger ran into the operation room and told Doctor Park that he was needed immediately. Park proceeded to say "Don"t you see, I can"t leave.
I am in the middle of a case even if it were for the President of the United States?". The messenger replied, "Doctor, it is for the President of the United States." Park proceeded to finish the operation.
Despite the importance of the situation, Park was only able to get to the exposition hospital via a train.
Once Park arrived, Mann was about to close up McKinley and asked Park if there should be any placement of drains. Park told Mann that he was the best man to make that decision given the scenario. Mann decided not to drain the abdomen since there was no excess blood or fluid around to be drained.
Doctor Park arranged for some nurses from the exposition to look over McKinley at the Milburn home until nurses from the army could arrive.
Despite some promising results McKinley died in the Milburn home.
Married Martha P. Durkee, 1880.