Background
Blair, Vilray Papin was born on June 15, 1871 in Saint Louis. Son of Edmund Harrison and Minnie (Papin) Blair.
Blair, Vilray Papin was born on June 15, 1871 in Saint Louis. Son of Edmund Harrison and Minnie (Papin) Blair.
Bachelor of Arts, Christian Brothers College, 1890, Master of Arts, 1894. Doctor of Medicine Washington University, 1893.
Practiced in Saint Louis, 1893-1848. Professor emeritus clinical surgery Washington University School Medicine, oral surgery, School Dentistry. Visiting surgeon, Maternity and De Paul hospitals.
Associate surgeon Barnes and Saint Louis Children’s hospitals.
In charge plastic and oral surgery section of the head, United States Army, 1917-1918, chief consultant maxillo-facial surgery, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1918-1919.
American College of Surgeons fellow, American Laryngol. Association, American Surgical Association. Member International Surgical Society, National Institute Social Sciences, American Medical Association, Association American Anatomists, Southern, Western surgical associations.
Clubs: University, Saint Louis Country.
Married Kathryn Lyman Johnson, 1907. Children: Kathryn Lyman, Nancy Lucas, Mary Papin (deceased), Vilray Papin, John Bates Johnson.