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Charles A. Oliver papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/102

Scope and Contents

This small collection of letters received and copies of letters sent by Charles A. Oliver as chairman of the Committee for the Organization of the Class of 1876 of the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1901, contains information about the planned reunion, held 11 June 1901, and members of the class. Principal correspondents are: A. Y. Gerhard, John G. Hersh. J. Craig Miller, R. Harvey Reed, and J. Francis... Walsh. Also included are Oliver's notes concerning the Class of 1876 and its deceased members. See more

Dates

  • 1901

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Charles Augustus Oliver, Philadelphia ophthalmologist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 14 December 1853; he was the son of physician George Powell Oliver. Oliver died of pulmonary edema on 8 April 1911.

Oliver received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. After a residency at Philadelphia Hospital, he became Clinical Clerk at Wills Eye Hospital and, in 1890, Attending Surgeon. Oliver was Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon at Philadelphia Hospital and helped to establish clinical services for eye diseases at St. Mary's, St. Agnes, and Presbyterian Hospital. From 1897 to 1909, he taught ophthalmology at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Oliver worked closely with William F. Norris, and they collaborated on the Text book of ophthalmology and the System of diseases of the eye.

In 1884, Charles A. Oliver was elected to fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He was also a member of the American Ophthalmological Society, the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Neurological Society.

Extent

.5 Box (27 folders)

Language of Materials

English

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