Background
Elsasser, Theodore Herman was born on December 19, 1899 in Union City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adolph Otto and Mary (Klein) Elsasser.
Elsasser, Theodore Herman was born on December 19, 1899 in Union City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adolph Otto and Mary (Klein) Elsasser.
Student, New York University, 1919-1920; Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1924; postgraduate surgical course, New York University, 1927-1930.
Intern North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, New Jersey, 1924-1925. Instructor surgery New York University College Medicine, 1928-1985. Associate surgeon Jersey City Medical Center, Christ Hospital, Jersey City.
Associate with professor George B. Wallace, department pharmacology New York University, in cancer research, 1930-1985. Assistant professor surgery Seton Hall University, Jersey City, 1959.
Executive chairman Hudson County unit American Cancer Society. Medical delegate to New Jersey division board of trustees American Cancer Society With Reserve Officers Training Corps, 1919. Fellow American College of Surgeons.
Member Clinical and Postgraduate Surgical Society New York University, American Medical Association, Hudson Cityand North Hudson Physicians Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Alpha Sigma.
Married Elise Valentine Zibetti, March 17, 1924. Children: Elise Theodora, Mary Ellen, Elaine Delores. Married Margaret Grogan, April 1946.
Children: Elizabeth, Theodore.