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| Husband: | George Blumer (1872-1962) | |
| Wife: | Mabel Louise Bradley (1880-1968) | |
| Marriage | 26 Jun 1909 | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Name: | George Blumer | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | John George Blumer (1845-1918) | |
| Mother: | Julia Edith Walford (1847- ) | |
| 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: | Mabel Louise Bradley | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 7 Aug 1880 | Connecticut, USA |
| Death | 27 Feb 1968 (age 87) | Balboa Island, 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: