W. G. MacCallum

Full Name: William George MacCallum

Physician

Centurion, 1910–1944

Proposed by
Samuel W. Lambert and Simon Flexner

born April 18, 1874
Dunnville, Ontario, Canada

died February 3, 1944
Baltimore, Maryland

elected March 5, 1910
Age thirty-five

buried Green Mount Cemetery,
Baltimore, Maryland

proposer of

Karl Vogel

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Archivist’s Notes

Son of G. A. MacCallum; elected before his father

Century Memorial

William George MacCallum. [Born] 1874. Pathologist. Born in Canada; graduated from Johns Hopkins in the first class of the Medical School; pathologist there till 1909 when he came to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this city as Professor of Pathology; returned to Johns Hopkins in 1917 in succession to Dr. Welch for the rest of his long career; in New York instituted reform of coroners, converting them into medical examiners possessing degrees in medicine; author of a widely used “Textbook of Pathology”; far roving traveller and student; reserved in manner, fastidious in thought, a scientist whose ideals were of the purest.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945

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