Winfield Scott Hall

Background

Hall, Winfield Scott was born on January 5, 1861 in Batavia, Illinois, United States. Son of Albert Nelson and Adelia (Foote) Hall.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1887, Doctor of Medicine 1888, Master of Science, 1889. Doctor of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany, 1894, Doctor of Philosophy, 1895.

Career

Interne Mercy Hospital, Chicago, 1888-1889. Professor biology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, 1889-1893. Professor physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, 1895-1919, professor emeritus since 1919, and junior dean medical faculty, 1901-1913.

Lecturer on dietetics, Mercy Hospital School for Nurses, 1896-1918.

Lecturer on physiology, Young Men's Christian Association College, Chicago, 1898-1917. Lecturer on dietetics, Wesley Hospital School for Nurses, 1903-1918.

Medical director Bureau of Social Hygiene, Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church of United States of America, 1919-1929. Exchange professor Universite Internationale, Brussels, Belgium, 1921-1927.

Retired, 1929.

Achievements

• Winfield Scott Hall has been listed as a notable Doctor of Medicine author, lecturer. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Phi Beta Kappa (Northwestern, 1892), Sigma Xi. Member American Physiological Society, American Medical Association (chairman of the section pathology and physiology, 1905). Member International Congress on Tuberculosis.

Member Research Council of National Health League.

Member hygiene reference board, Life Extension Institute of America, since 1920.

Connections

Married Jeannette Winter, of Juniata, Nebraska, October 11, 1888. Children: Albert Winter, Ethel Louise, Reymond Ludwig, Murill Jeannette.

Father:

Albert Nelson Hall

Mother:

Adelia (Foote) Hall

Spouse:

Jeannette Winter

child:

Albert Winter Hall

child:

Reymond Ludwig Hall

child:

Murill Jeannette Hall

child:

Ethel Louise Hall