Frederic Poole Gorham
Frederic Poole Gorham | |
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Born | |
Died | June 4, 1933 | (aged 62)
Resting place | Swan Point Cemetery[1] |
Education | A.M. |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Occupation(s) | Bacteriologist, educator |
Spouse(s) | Emma May Lapham (1897−1913) Ruth Elizabeth Bjorkchahl (1917−1933) |
Children | 5 |
Frederic Poole Gorham (April 29, 1871 – June 4, 1933) was an American bacteriologist and educator.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of businessman Samuel Gorham and his wife Abby Harding Fish, he was educated in local schools before graduating from Providence High School in 1889 and matriculating to Brown University.[2][3] After graduating in 1893, he became an instructor of Biology at Brown[4] and was awarded his A.M. in 1894 upon examination, with special studies performed at Harvard. On June 24, 1897,[2] he was married to Emma Mary Lapham in Burrillville, Rhode Island.[3] Thereafter he became an assistant professor in 1899, then associate professor in 1901. While doing so, he attended a series of lectures at Harvard University during 1902−1903.[2] In 1913 he established bacteriology as a field of study at Brown University,[5] becoming Professor of Bacteriology.[6]
In 1899, he was appointed bacteriologist for the Providence Department of Health, a post he occupied until 1933
Bibliography
- A laboratory guide for the dissection of the cat: an introduction to the study of anatomy (1895) with R. W. Tower[3]
- A laboratory course in bacteriology: for the use of medical, agricultural, and industrial students (1897)[3]
- The gas-bubble disease of fish and its cause (1900)
- Morphological varieties of bacillus diphtheriæ (1901)
- The photogenic bacteria (1903)
- Recent debts to biology (1904)
- Cambrian deposits of North Attelboro (1905)
- Superior Rhode Island oysters (1913)
References
- ^ The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project, RootsWeb, retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ a b c Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, vol. 2, J.H. Beers & Company, 1908, p. 956.
- ^ a b c d Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson, eds. (1908), Who's who in America, vol. 5, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, p. 742.
- ^ PMID 16559676.
- ^ a b c d Mitchell, Martha, "Gorham, Frederic P.", Encyclopedia Brunoniana, Brown University, retrieved 2013-08-06.
- ^ a b Brown University (1914), Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 1764–1914, Providence: The F. A. Bassette Company, p. 313.
- PMID 13081545.
- ^ Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal, Laphams in America: thirteen thousand descendants including descendants of John from Devonshire, England to Providence, R.I., 1673, Thomas from Kent, England, to Scituate, Mass., 1634, and genealogical notes of other Lapham families, p. 258.
External links
- Works by or about Frederic Poole Gorham at Internet Archive
- Ockerbloom, John Mark (ed.), "Search results: Frederic Poole Gorham", Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania.
- Gorham, Frederic Poole, American Society for Microbiology, retrieved 2013-08-06.
- Frederic Poole Gorham, Ancestry.com, retrieved 2015-12-23.