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Michael Angelo Cunningham,
superintendent of the Jefferson County Tuberculosis Hospital in
Beaumont for twenty years, was born in Malvern, Iowa, on August
24, 1889, the son of Michael and Margaret (Aistrope) Cunningham.
He attended schools in Malvern and received a medical degree
from Creighton Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913.
After an internship at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo,
Colorado, he became assistant superintendent of the Iowa State
Sanatorium at Oakdale. Afterwards he became medical director of
Holy Cross Sanatorium in Deming, New Mexico. In 1939 he became
medical director and superintendent of the Jefferson County
Tuberculosis Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. In 1935 Cunningham
joined thirty-eight other physicians to establish the American
College of Chest Physicians. Like Cunningham, most of these
physicians were busily involved in the treatment of patients
with tuberculosis. Cunningham served for fifteen years as a
director of the Texas Tuberculosis Association. He was also a
member of the National Tuberculosis Association, the American
Trudeau Society, the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Texas
Medical Association,qv the
American Medical Association, and the Southwestern Medical
Association. He married Harriett M. Miller of Waterloo, Iowa,
and they had a son. Cunningham was a Mason. He died in Beaumont
on September 20, 1959.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Beaumont
Enterprise,
September 21, 1959. Beaumont Journal,
September 21, 1959,
Texas State Journal of Medicine,
December 1959.
Chester R. Burns
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