See also
Husband:
John George Blumer (1845-1918)
Wife:
Julia Edith Walford (1847- )
Children:
Marriage:
7 Mar 1871
Devonport, Devon
Name:
John George Blumer
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
23 Feb 1845
Ashgrove, Darlington, Durham
Birth fact:
1845 (age 0)
1845 Mar Qtr, Tendring, 12/274
Census:
1851 (age 5-6)
Living with parents
Immigration:
1886 (age 40-41)
to Immigration to USA
Death:
24 Dec 1918 (age 73)
Name:
Julia Edith Walford
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1 Feb 1847
St Pancras, London
Name:
George Blumer
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Mabel Louise Bradley (1880-1968)
Note (shared):
George Blumer was the son of John George Blumer and Julia Edith, née Walford. His family emigrated and settled in California when he was 14 years old. He graduated from Cooper Medical College in San Francisco in 1891 and interned at the City and County Hospital in San Francisco. He was a surgical house officer in Johns Hopkins Hospital and worked under William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), William Osler (1849-1919), William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), William Henry Welch (1850-1934) and Simon Flexner (1863-1946). In 1896 he was appointed Director of the Bender Hygienic Laboratory in Albany, New York and worked there until 1903. He then had a series of faculty appointments at Albany Medical College, Cooper Medical College, the University of California Medical School, and Yale University.
Blumer witnessed the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 and wrote an eyewitness account of the disaster. That year he married Ann Evans.
He was Dean of the Medical Faculty at Yale from 1910 to 1920 at which time he was named the David P. Saith Professor of Clinical Medicine. In 1939 he retired from his administrative duties and returned to clinical teaching and consulting. He was a prolific writer.
George Blumer died at his home on Balboa Island, California May 6, 1962 at the age of 90.
We thank Professor Robert P. Turk, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3093.html
Dr. George Blumer’s Eyewitness Account of the San Francisco Earthquake Disaster can be found at:
http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=mmy_geb806
Birth:
16 Mar 1872
Pierpont Crescent, Darlington, Durham
Census:
1910 (age 37-38)
Physician, Turnbull St, New Haven, CT
Death:
6 May 1962 (age 90)
Balboa Island, California, USA
Name:
Elsie Blumer
Sex:
Female
Birth:
14 Sep 1873
Darlington, Co. Durham
Birth fact:
1873 (age 0)
1873 Dec Qtr, Darlington, 10a/3
Name:
Hilda Blumer
Sex:
Female
Birth:
20 Feb 1875
Darlington, Co. Durham
Birth fact:
1875 (age 0)
1875 Mar Qtr, Darlington, 10a/28
Name:
Edith Blumer
Sex:
Female
Birth:
30 Jul 1876
Darlington, Co. Durham
Birth fact:
1876 (age 0)
1876 Sep Qtr, Darlington, 10a/30
Name:
Philip Walford Blumer
Sex:
Male
Birth:
2 Aug 1881
Darlington, Co. Durham
Birth fact:
1881 (age 0)
1881 Sep Qtr, Darlington, 10a/24
Death:
25 May 1957 (age 75)
Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA
George Blumer was the son of John George Blumer and Julia Edith, née Walford. His family emigrated and settled in California when he was 14 years old. He graduated from Cooper Medical College in San Francisco in 1891 and interned at the City and County Hospital in San Francisco. He was a surgical house officer in Johns Hopkins Hospital and worked under William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), William Osler (1849-1919), William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), William Henry Welch (1850-1934) and Simon Flexner (1863-1946). In 1896 he was appointed Director of the Bender Hygienic Laboratory in Albany, New York and worked there until 1903. He then had a series of faculty appointments at Albany Medical College, Cooper Medical College, the University of California Medical School, and Yale University.
Blumer witnessed the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 and wrote an eyewitness account of the disaster. That year he married Ann Evans.
He was Dean of the Medical Faculty at Yale from 1910 to 1920 at which time he was named the David P. Saith Professor of Clinical Medicine. In 1939 he retired from his administrative duties and returned to clinical teaching and consulting. He was a prolific writer.
George Blumer died at his home on Balboa Island, California May 6, 1962 at the age of 90.
We thank Professor Robert P. Turk, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3093.html
Dr. George Blumer’s Eyewitness Account of the San Francisco Earthquake Disaster can be found at:
http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=mmy_geb806