Background
Woodruff, Thomas Adams was born on June 4, 1865 in Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Son of Samuel De Veaux and Jane Caroline (Sanderson) Woodruff.
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Thomas Adams Woodruff
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Matriculated University of Toronto. Doctor of Medicine Certificated Master, McGill University, Montreal, 1888. Attended hospitals and clinics, London, Berlin, Göttingen, 1888-1890.
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1890.
In general practice, Chicago, 1890-1894. In attendance eye and ear hospitals, Vienna, Berlin, London, 1894-1895.
Certificate Board of Ophthalmic Examiners.
Career
Specialist in ophthalmology and otology, Chicago, 1895-1918. Was ophthalmic surgeon, Saint Luke’s and Saint Anthony hospitals, Chicago. Major Medical Corps United States of America, on active duty September 1917-December 1918.
Head of eye department, Base Hospital, Camp Grant, Illinois, and chief section of surgery of the head, Base Hospital, Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, and Camp Meade, Maryland.
Settled at New London, Connecticut, December 1918. Consultant ophthalmologist to Lawrence and Memorial hospitals, New London.
Former vice president Lincoln Pulp & Paper Mills Company (Canada).
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College Surgeons, American Academy Medicine, American Medical Association (3d vice president 1908), American Academy Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology.
Connections
Married Caroline Wright Ogden.
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Nationality
Canadian