Background
Ziegler, Samuel Lewis was born on February 5, 1861 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Samuel William and Martha Elizabeth (Lewis) Ziegler.
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Samuel Lewis Ziegler
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Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, 1880, Master of Arts, 1883. Doctor of Science, 1900. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1885.
Studied London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
Doctor of Laws, Lafayette, 1915.
Career
Practiced in Philadelphia, since 1885. Resident physical, Germantown Hospital, Episcopal Hospital, 1885-1887. House surgeon, Wills Eye Hospital, 1887-1889, late attending surgeon, executive medical officer same.
Chief ophthalmic surgeon, Saint Joseph’s Hospital.
Director public health and charities of Philadelphia under Mayor Blankenburg. Member Permanent Committee on Comprehensive Plans, City of Philadelphia.
Achievements
Religion
Because of their sinful state, all human beings stand in need of salvation, and God's gracious provision for this consists in the life and work of Jesus Christ.
Membership
Member of the board of trustees, Bucknell U. Fellow American College Surgeons, College Physicians Philadelphia (chairman ophthalmological section, 1915-1919. Member many medical societies.
Member Pan-American Medical Congress. 1893, International Ophthalmological Congress, Edinburgh, 1894, Utrecht, 1899, Lucerne, 1904, Naples.
1909, International Medical Congress.
Paris, 1900, London, 1913, Oxford Ophthalmol. Congress (council).; Mason.
Connections
Married May Weston, June 28, 1904.
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Religion
Baptist