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L. Bolton Bangs

Surgeon

Centurion, 1890–1914

Full Name Lemuel Bolton Bangs

Born 9 August 1842 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 4 October 1914 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by William T. Bull, John Sedgwick, and Fessenden Nott Otis

Elected 1 March 1890 at age forty-seven

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Century Memorial

Another prominent surgeon was Lemuel Bolton Bangs, professor at the New York Post-graduate Medical School and at Bellevue; consulting surgeon at St. Luke’s, Bellevue, St. Vincent’s, and other hospitals. His text-book on surgery was widely used, his surgical articles in medical magazines were highly regarded, and his character was above reproach.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook