Hoover Archives Acquire The Papers Of Major General Harry L. Gilchrist

The Hoover Institution Archives have acquired the papers of Major General Harry Lorenzo Gilchrist (1870–1943). Born in Waterloo, Iowa (also the birthplace of Lou Henry Hoover in 1874), Gilchrist graduated from the Medical Department of Western Reserve University (today’s Case Western) in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. His military career, which spanned thirty-six years, began in 1898, when he joined the US Army as a contract surgeon. He continued as an assistant surgeon while fighting epidemics in the Philippines, Central America, and Cuba, all while pursuing his studies and graduating from the Army Medical School in 1903. He would rise to the rank of captain and then major in the Medical Corps in the years that followed… Read the rest here: https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-archives-acquire-papers-major-general-harry-l-gilchrist