GEORGE BLUMER, M.  D.

Dr. George Blumer, dean of the Yale Medical School and eminent as a scientist and physi-cian, was born in Darlington, County Durham, England, March 16, 1872, a son of John George and Julia Edith (Walford) Blumer who were also natives of England, whence they came to the new world in 1886, establishing their home in Sierra Madre, Los Angeles county, California, where they still reside. The father was engaged in the wholesale coal business. In their family were six children, of whom Dr. George Blumer is the eldest. The others are: Mrs. John W. Hart, who is living at San Gabriel, California; Mrs. William Thacher, whose husband and his brother conduct the Thacher School at Nordhoff, California; Edith, of Sierra Madre, California; Philip W., who is located at Eagle Rock, California; and Fred Blumer, who is living in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. George Blumer attended the grammar school of Queen Elizabeth, England, until 1886, when as a youth of fourteen he accompanied his parents to the new world. He afterward studied for a year in the public schools of Sierra Madre, California, and later entered the Cooper Medical College at San Francisco, now the medical department of Leland Stanford Uni-versity, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. He then entered the City and County Hospital of San Francisco and afterward went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he became staff and house physician of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, with which he was asso-ciated for three and a half years. He later became the director of the Bender laboratory of Albany, New York, with which he was connected for seven years, or from 1896 until 1903. In the latter year he returned to San Francisco, where he devoted three years to the private practice of medicine. He left California in 1906 to come to New Haven and has since been identified with the faculty of Yale University. He was professor of medicine from 1906 until 1910, but this was not his initial step in the educational field. He was assistant in pathology at the Johns Hopkins University in 1895-6 and was a post graduate student of the University of Munich in the summer of 1897. He afterward became director of the Bender Hygienic Laboratory of Albany, New York, where he remained from 1896 until 1903, after which he was professor of pathology and bacteriology in the Albany Medical College until 1903. He became associate professor of pathology in the Cooper Medical College, with which he was thus connected in 1904-5, and was then assistant in medicine at the University of California in 1005-6. Returning to the east, he accepted the John Slade Ely professorship of theory and practice of medicine at Yale and in June, 1910, he was made dean of the Yale Medical School, in which connection he still continues. He has written many articles on medical subjects which have wide circulation and he is a recognized authority on many diseases. Dr. Blumer is a member of the board of trustees of the Mansfield State Training School and Hospital and a member of the New Haven board of education. He belongs to the Association of American Physicians, to the American Medical Association, to the Interurban Clinical Club, to the New York Academy of Medicine, to the Connecticut State Medical Society and the National committee on mental hygiene. He is likewise a director of the New Haven Hospital and of the New Haven Dispensary.

On the 20th of August, 1906, Dr. Blumer was married to Miss Anna Evans, of San Diego, California, who died September 26, 1907. On the 26th of June, 1909, he wedded Mabel Louise Bradley, of New Haven, Connecticut, and they have become parents of three children: Mary Kimberly, who was born in 1910; Elsie Walford, who was born in 1913; and Bertha Bradley, born July 19, 1917, at Haycock Point, Branford, Connecticut.

Dr. Blumer is a member of the Graduates and of the Lawn Club. He turns to tennis and fishing for recreation but there are few leisure hours in his career. He ranks very high in professional circles and enjoys the fullest confidence and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries, who regard association with him as equivalent to professional expansion and elevation. His work, actuated by high purpose, has been crowned by successful accomplishment.

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