Background
RHOADS, Thomas Leidy was born on April 10, 1870 in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas J. B. and Theresa (Leidy) Rhoads.
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Thomas Leidy RHOADS
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Education
Public Schools, High School, Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1 year. Maryland Military and Naval Academy, Oxford, Maryland, 1 year.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1887-1890, Bachelor of Arts, 1891. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Doctor of Medicine, 1893.
Career
Assistant Surgeon, United States Navy, 1898. Contract Surgeon, United States Army, 1900, First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 1900. Captain, Medical Corps, 1905, Major, 1909, Lieutenant Colonel, 1917.
Colonel, 1926; served Base Hospital. No. 2, Fort Bliss, Texas charge Surgical work and later commanding officer, 1917. Accompanied 80 Division. to France, 1918, as Division.
Surgeon; participated Somme Offensive, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne Offensives, and in Defensive Sector. Appointed Chief Surgeon, First Army Corps, Chief Surgeon, First Army, 1918. Assistant, and later in charge, Department Sanitation and Public Health, Civil Affairs, Army Occupation Area, American Expeditionary Forces, Trier, Germany, 1918.
Camp Surgeon, Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1919. Sanitary Inspector, Third Corps Area, Baltimore, Maryland, 1920-1921. Surgeon, 6 Corps Area, Chicago, 1921.
Instructor., Medical Department Units, New York National. Guard, 1923; Department Surgeon, Philippine Department, 1927. Surgeon, Second Corps Area, Governors Island, since 1929.
Awarded Distinguished Service Medal. Contbr., medical lit. on Surgical Technique, Fractures, Tracheotomy, etc., military lit. on Principals of Evacuation of Wounded, Medical Tactics, etc.
Membership
Member: Association Military Surgeons. American College Surgeons. American Medical Association.
American Legion; F. & Master of Arts. Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Union League (New York), Metropolitan, Army and Navy (Washington, District of Columbia), Chevy Chase (Maryland), University (Boyertown. Pennsylvania).
Connections
Spouse Frances Naomi Kohler. 1899, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
