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Finding Aid to the George Miller Sternberg Papers, 1861-1917
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Series I: Biographical Information, 1861-1917 |
Biographical/Historical NoteBorn at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, New York, on June 8, 1838, George Miller Sternberg received a medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1860. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, on May 28, 1861; Captain, May 28, 1866; Major (Surgeon), December 1, 1873; Lieutenant Colonel (Surgeon), January 12, 1891, Brigadier General, Surgeon General, May 30, 1893; and retired from the Army on June 8, 1902. During the Civil War, he began his service with the Army of the Potomac, later transferring to the Department of the Gulf. At the end of the war, he was in command of the US General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. He served throughout the Cholera and Yellow Fever epidemics in the United States and was a member of the Yellow Fever Commission, and the National Board of Health. He was widely credited with the development of ambulance services for wounded soldiers in the Civil War and many of his battlefield treatment methods remain in place today. Later he became interested in collecting fossils from the Dakota Sandstone (early Cretaceous) Formation while stationed in Kansas. He died on November 3, 1915 and was buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery. Return to the Table of Contents Collection SummaryCorrespondence, documents, certificates, and printed matter. Correspondence consists chiefly of congratulatory letters on becoming Surgeon General, acknowledgments for reprints, and letters from senators and congressmen pertaining to promotion to grade of major general. Printed matter consists of book reviews and information relating to inventions of Sternberg. Correspondents include A. C. Abbott, Aristides Agramonte, C. H. Alden, Spencer Baird, John Barrett, J. L. Bartlett, P. Baumgarten, A. N. Bell, John S. Billings, Rupert Blue, Henry L. Bowditch, J. C. Breckinridge, Herman J. Briggs, James B. Bullett, James McKeen Cattell, Sanford E. Chaillâe, W. T. Councilman, C. H. Crane, Samuel H. Durgin, Harold C. Ernest, Charles B. Ewing, Livingston Farrand, Austin Flint, C. Fraenkel, Jacob C. Gallinger, H. M. Goodman, Charles R. Greenleaf, John Guitâeras, Joseph Henry, J. O. Hirschfelder, Joseph Holt, William Hunt, Robert Koch, Horace Lathrop, Emilio Martinez, S. Weir Mitchell, James D. Morgan, J. S. Newberry, Isaac Norris, Thomas Opie, Sir William Osler, George A. Otis, O. B. Parker, Theophilus Parvin, John C. Peters, Henry Phipps, Enoch Pratt, J. H. Raymond, James E. Reeves, W. J. Reid, Henry A. L. Rohlfing, E. H. Sargent, J. M. Schofield, George F. Shrady, Charles S. Shultz, Charles Smith, A. K. Stone, John S. Thacher, Thomas Ward, William H. Welch, James T. Whittaker. Signatures on documents and certificates include names of Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Benjamin Harrison, John Hay, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Edwin M. Stanton, and William Howard Taft. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictionsCollection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov. CopyrightNLM does not possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationSternberg, George M. George M. Sternberg Papers. 1861-1917. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 100. Provenance
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Last updated: 23 May 2007
First published: 28 June 2004
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