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Ada President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1930-1931: Robert Todd Oliver, American Dental Association

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Doctor Oliver, of Philadelphia, became the sixty-eighth president of the Association at the 1930 meeting in Denver. His presidential address was a scholarly review of the history of the young profession of dentistry in the United States. Doctor Oliver served for many years as chief of the dental corps of the United States Army. Shortly after graduating in 1888 from the Indiana Dental College, he became professor of oral surgery at that institution. He was in the Indiana National Guard and saw active duty in the Spanish-American War. Doctor Oliver served as a dentist in the Philippine Insurrection and the …


Ada President 1967-1968: Floyd Darl Ostrander, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1967-1968: Floyd Darl Ostrander, American Dental Association

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Doctor Ostrander, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, became the one­hundred-and-fourth president of the Association at the 1967 meeting in Washington. The Virgin Islands Dental Association was admitted as a constituent society of the American Dental Association. Doctor Ostrander, an endodontist and educator, was speaker of the House of Delegates from 1961 to 1966. He was a member of the Council on Dental Therapeutics for 18 years and was its chairman in 1960-1961. A professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Doctor Ostrander served as president of the Michigan State Dental Association, American Association of Endodontists, and the …


Ada President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1892-1894: John Deans Patterson, American Dental Association

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Doctor Patterson, of Kansas City, was elected thirty-second president of the Association at the 1892 meeting at Niagara Falls. No regular meeting of the Association was held in 1893 because the World's Columbian Dental Congress was held that year, so Doctor Patterson served as ADA president until 1894. Doctor Patterson was president of the Kansas State Dental Association in 1876-1877 and president of the Missouri State Dental Association in 1892. He was one of the organizers and first professor of operative dentistry of the Kansas City Dental College. Doctor Patterson was noted as an essayist, orator, and parliamentarian. He was …


Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1960-1961: Charles Heston Patton, American Dental Association

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Doctor Patton, of Philadelphia, became the ninety-seventh president of the Association at the 1960 meeting in Los Angeles. As president, Doctor Patton was a member of the United States Dental Mission to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union also sent a dental mission to the United States in 1961. Doctor Patton, an orthodontist, served the Association as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1953 to 1959 and as a member of the Council on Scientific Session from 1948 to 1953. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society and the Philadelphia County Dental Society. Doctor Patton was …


Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1906-1907: Adelbert Henry Peck, American Dental Association

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Doctor Peck, of Chicago, was elected forty-fourth president of the Association at the 1906 meeting in Atlanta. Doctor Peck had been the Association's recording secretary in 1883-1885 and 1902-1906. Doctor Peck, who was also a physician, was secretary and later president of the Illinois State Dental Society. After being professor of materia medica and therapeutics first at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and then at Northwestern University Dental School, he became dean of the University of Illinois dental school. After three years as dean, he resigned in 1904 to devote full time to private practice. He was a frequent …


Ada President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1880-1881: Cyrus Newlin Peirce, American Dental Association

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Doctor Peirce, of Philadelphia, was elected twentieth president of the Association at the 1880 meeting in Boston. Delegates discussed the need for a united profession and the possibility of unification of the American Dental Association, the American Dental Convention, and the Southern National Dental Association. Doctor Peirce, professor of physiology and operative dentistry, was dean of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery from 1860 until 1866 and from 1877 until 1901. He was the first president of the National Association of Dental Faculties. Among the many published papers of Doctor Peirce were essays on the relation between uric acid and …


Ada President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1964-1965: Fritz Arthur Pierson, American Dental Association

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Doctor Pierson, of Lincoln, Nebraska, became the one­hundred-and-first president of the Association at the 1964 meeting in San Francisco. This was a joint meeting with the Federation Dentaire Internationale, and its theme was "International Cooperation for Better Dental Health." Doctor Pierson was a private practitioner and a professor of dental medicine at the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry. He was a member of the House of Delegates from 1930 to 1957 and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1957 to 1963. For many years Doctor Pierson was secretary of the Nebraska Dental Association, which he also served …


Ada President 1877-1878: Frederick Henry Rehwinkel, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1877-1878: Frederick Henry Rehwinkel, American Dental Association

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Doctor Rehwinkel, of Chillicothe, Ohio, was elected seventeenth president of the Association at the 1877 meeting in Chicago. Doctor Rehwinkel was born in Germany in 1825. He completed his medical education in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1849, graduating from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1854. He was active in several dental organizations and served as president of the Ohio State Dental Society. He died in 1889.


Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1942-1943: J. Ben Robinson, American Dental Association

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Doctor Robinson, of Baltimore, became the eightieth president of the Association at the 1942 meeting in St. Louis. Because of the war, attendance was limited to delegates and members of standing committees. Doctor Robinson served as dean of two dental schools: the University of Maryland from 1924 to 1953 and West Virginia University from 1953 to 1958. He served as president of the Maryland State Dental Association, the American Association of Dental Schools, the American College of Dentists, and the American Academy of the History of Dentistry. Doctor Robinson was the author of numerous articles on dental education and history …


Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association Jan 1977

Ada President 1940-1941: Wilfred H. Robinson, American Dental Association

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Doctor Robinson, of Oakland, became the seventy-eighth president of the Association at the 1940 meeting in Cleveland. The Association had the following standing committees and councils: Judicial, Dental Education, Dental Legislation, Dental Health Education, Relief, Dental Relief Fund, Research, Process Patent, Dental Index, Membership, representatives on National Board of Dental Examiners, Insurance, Economics, Dental Therapeutics, Public Health, American Red Cross, History and Dental Museum. Doctor Robinson was president of the California State Dental Association in 1930 and the National Association of Dental Examiners in 1935. He was active in civic affairs in Oakland and Alameda County. He was born in …


Numa P. G. Adams, M.D. 1885-1940, W. Montague Cobb Jan 1951

Numa P. G. Adams, M.D. 1885-1940, W. Montague Cobb

Faculty Reprints

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The Place Of History In Medicine, J. M.D Olmsted Jan 1948

The Place Of History In Medicine, J. M.D Olmsted

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

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Introductory Lecture Delivered Before The Class Of Jefferson Medical College, By Professor J.B. Biddle. Monday, October 9, 1865., J. B. Biddle Oct 1865

Introductory Lecture Delivered Before The Class Of Jefferson Medical College, By Professor J.B. Biddle. Monday, October 9, 1865., J. B. Biddle

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Introductory Address Delivered Before The Students Of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia., B. Howard Rand, Md Oct 1864

Introductory Address Delivered Before The Students Of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia., B. Howard Rand, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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Baron Larrey. By D. Hayes Agnew, M.D., D. Hayes Agnew, Md Oct 1861

Baron Larrey. By D. Hayes Agnew, M.D., D. Hayes Agnew, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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The Late Professor J.K. Mitchell, M.D. Professor Dunglison's Preliminary Remarks. Professor Dickson's Inaugural Lecture., Robley Dunglison, Md, Samuel Henry Dickson, Md, Lld Oct 1858

The Late Professor J.K. Mitchell, M.D. Professor Dunglison's Preliminary Remarks. Professor Dickson's Inaugural Lecture., Robley Dunglison, Md, Samuel Henry Dickson, Md, Lld

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.