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Guide to the Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School Correspondence
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Call Number: SC0520
Creator:
Stanford University. Office of the President
Title: Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School correspondence
Dates: 1902-1912
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Stanford University President's Office
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item], Stanford University. President's Office. Medical School Correpsondence, SC 520, Stanford University
Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, which had antecedents in other medical schools in existence as early as 1858, was
formally established in 1882 under the leadership of Dr. Levi Cooper Lane. With the financial generosity of Dr. Lane, the
College was able to add laboratories and a hospital during the next two decades, but it was also becoming apparent that new
sources of support would be necessary for its continued success. In 1901 Cooper Medical College and Stanford University began
to talk about the possibility of a union. Between 1902 and 1907 the details of the merger were worked on and a final agreement
was reached by the University Board of Trustees on January 31, 1908.
The first faculty was appointed in October 1908. Stanford faculty included among them were Arthur William Meyer, John Maxson
Stillman, Oliver Peebles Jenkins, Frank Mace MacFarland, William Freeman Snow, George Clinton Price, and Robert Eckles Swain.
From the Cooper faculty were the following: Adolph Barkan, Henry Gibbons, Jr., Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder, Stanley Stillman,
Emmet Rixford, William Ophüls, and William Fitch Cheney. Ray Layman Wilbur was also appointed to the faculty at this time.
These records pertain to the merger of Cooper Medical College and Stanford University. They consist largely of correspondence,
with a few reports and financial documents. Most of the letters are addressed to David Starr Jordan, although some of the
correspondence is that of George A. Clark, the academic secretary of Stanford University. In addition to the details of the
merger, the letters address curriculum issues, faculty appointments, fees, facilities, financial matters, future needs and
plans, the medical school library, the possible association with the University of California, and the Lane Medical Lectures.
An index to the correspondents is included in this guide.
These records appear to have been part of the university president's office but were at some time separated from other records
and bound together. Three volumes, roughly chronological in arrangement, were removed from the four digit collection. The
volumes were disassembled but rehoused in sequential order: folders 1 through 14 in box 1 represent the first volume and folders
15 through 23 represent the second volume. Box 2 represents the third volume. Within these three segments, the chronological
arrangement of the letters was corrected where necessary.
Barkan, Adolph.
Blake, Clarence J., (Clarence John), -1919
Clark, George A. (George Archibald), 1865-1918.
Cooper Medical College.
Gibbons, Henry, 1840-1911.
Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Meyer, Arthur William, 1873-
Ophüls, William,, 1871-1933.
Pritchett, Henry S., (Henry Smith), 1857-1939.
Ricketts, Howard Taylor,, 1871-1910.
Rixford, Emmet,, 1865-1938.
Stanford University. School of Medicine.
Stillman, John Maxson, 1852-1923.
Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
Zinsser, Hans,, 1878-1940.
Medical colleges--California.
Medical education.
Abel, John J.
Box 1, Folder 15, 16, 19
Alsberg, Carl L.
Box 1 Folder 12, 15, 20
Bain, A. J.
Box 1 Folder 19
Barkan, Adolph
Box 1 Folder 15
Barkan, Adolph
Box 2 Folder 7
Barnes, Jasper C.
Box 1 Folder 18
Blaisdell, F. E.
Box 2 Folder 6
Blake, Clarence J.
Box 1 Folder 1, 2
Branner, John C.
Box 1 Folder 21, 22
Branner, John C.
Box 2 Folder 8, 9
Bridge, Norman
Box 1 Folder 19
Burrage, Severance
Box 1 Folder 17, 19
Cheney, William F.
Box 1 Folder 18
Clark, George A.
Box 2 Folder 2-4, 6-8, 9-12
Coca, Arthur F.
Box 1 Folder 12, 16
Comstock, Annie
Box 1 Folder 20
Coulter, John M.
Box 1 Folder 12
Crawford, Albert C.
Box 1 Folder 19, 22
Crothers, George E.
Box 1 Folder 5-6, 10-11, 19
Davis, Horace
Box 1 Folder 12
Dean, Banford
Box 1 Folder 19
Dresbach, Melvin
Box 1 Folder 19-20
Ellinwood, C. N.
Box 1 Folder 3, 5
Elliott, O. L.
Box 2 Folder 8
Flexner
Box 1 Folder 15
Gage, Simon H.
Box 1 Folder 3, 20
Gay, Frederick P.
Box 1 Folder 18
Gibbons, Jr., Henry
Box 1 Folder 3, 9, 13, 17
Gilman, Philip K.
Box 1 Folder 12, 16
Hall, James P.
Box 1 Folder 17
Hatcher, Robert A.
Box 1 Folder 19
Hewlett, Albion W.
Box 1 Folder 11, 19
Hirschfelder, J. O.
Box 1 Folder 3
Hodgson, Caspar W.
Box 1 Folder 16, 18
Hollmann, E. F.
Box 2 Folder 13-14
Hood, S. B.
Box 1 Folder 18
Hopkins, Timothy
Box 1 Folder 13-14, 21-22
Hopkins, Timothy
Box 2 Folder 4-5
Huey, Edmund B.
Box 1 Folder 15
Hunt, Reid
Box 1 Folder 12, 20
Hyde, James N.
Box 1 Folder 12, 18
Jenkins, O. P.
Box 1 Folder 3
Jordan, David S.
Box 1 Folder 2, 3, 5, 11-14, 17, 20
Jordan, David S.
Box 2 Folder 2-7, 10-11
Judson, Henry Pratt
Box 1 Folder 19
Keeble, W. H.
Box 1 Folder 18
Kerr, Abram T.
Box 1 Folder 19
Little, Hubert
Box 2 Folder 7
MacFarland, Frank M.
Box 1 Folder 3
Meyer, Arthur W.
Box 1 Folder 13, 15, 20-22
Meyer, Arthur W.
Box 2 Folder 7-9
Montgomery, Walter A.
Box 1 Folder 18
Muirhead, A. L.
Box 1 Folder 19
Newman, John G.
Box 1 Folder 18
Ophüls, W.
Box 1 Folder 2-3, 12-21
Ophüls, W.
Box 2 Folder 6, 8, 12-14
Price, George C.
Box 1 Folder 3
Pritchett, Henry S.
Box 1 Folder 22
Pritchett, Henry S.
Box 2 Folder 4-5
Richards, A. N.
Box 1 Folder 17, 19
Ricketts, Howard T.
Box 1 Folder 12, 17-19
Ritchie, John W.
Box 1 Folder 12, 16-18
Rixford, Emmet
Box 1 Folder 11, 14
Rixford, Emmet
Box 2 Folder 4
Rosenberg, Emerich
Box 1 Folder 23
Sedgarck, W. T.
Box 1 Folder 16
Sloss, Leon
Box 1 Folder 12
Smith, Theobald
Box 1 Folder 15
Snow, William F.
Box 1 Folder 3, 16
Spalding, Alfred B.
Box 1 Folder 21
Stillman, J. M.
Box 1 Folder 2, 6-7, 11-14, 17, 20-22
Stillman, Stanley
Box 1 Folder 13
Swain, R. E.
Box 1 Folder 3
Voegtlin, C.
Box 1 Folder 12, 15, 20
Walker, Ernest L.
Box 1 Folder 16
Welch, William H.
Box 2 Folder 6
Wheeler, Benjamin
Box 1 Folder 3
Wilbur, Ray Lyman
Box 1 Folder 2, 14-16, 19
Wilbur, Ray Lyman
Box 2 Folder 2-14
William, Tom A.
Box 1 Folder 13
Wilson & Wilson, attorneys
Box 1 Folder 21
Zinsser, Hans
Box 1 Folder 12, 13, 19, 22
Zinsser, Hans
Box 2 Folder 4