LibGuides: Chicago Medical History: Notable People

CCC Reference

Archival Sources

William K. Beatty Collection of Portraits of Chicago Physicians, Chicago History Museum
Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1879-1994, Chicago History Museum
Leonidas H. Berry (1902-1995) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Arthur Dean Bevan (1861-1943) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Frank Billings (1854-1932) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Luther P. Christman (1915-2011) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Geza de Takats (1892-1985) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Steven G. Economou (1922-2007) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
James Etheridge Papers, 1872-1897, University of Illinois Chicago
Louis Gdalman (1910-1995) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
R. Kennedy Gilchrist (1904-1994) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Alice Hamilton collection, 1913-1995, University of Illinois Chicago
Ludvig Hektoen (1863-1951) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Isabella C. Herb (1869-1943) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
James B. Herrick (1861-1954) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
James B. Herrick Papers, 1886-1953, University of Chicago
Bayard Holmes Papers, Chicago Public Library
Edward L. Holmes (1828-1900) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
T. R. M. Howard Papers, 1929-1976, Chicago Public Library
Ephraim Ingals (1823-1900) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
E. Fletcher Ingals (1848-1918) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Ernest E. Irons (1877-1959) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
James W. Merricks (1908-1999) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Henry P. Russe (1848-1991) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
John E. Schwendener (1876-1928) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Nicholas Senn (1844-1908) Papers, Rush University Medical Center Archives
Nicholas Senn Papers, 1866-1908, University of Chicago
Thomas Winston Papers, 1854-1927, University of Chicago
Quentin Young Papers, 1937-2013, Northwestern University
Anne Zimmerman Papers, 1942-2003, University of Illinois Chicago

An excellent source for researching individual physicians is the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Card File. Learn more about the collection, which is held at the National Library of Medicine. This collection isn't physically available in Chicago; however, researchers can gain access through contacting the NLM or through FamilySearch or Ancestry.

CAPTION: Dr. Charles Eastman, January 6, 1903. Chicago Daily News, Inc. Chicago History Museum.

Link: explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicagohistory/71/377617g/

Books and other published sources

WorldCat allows you to search the holdings of libraries around the world. Check to see if these titles are at a library near you! If not, see if a local public library or a university with which you are affiliated allows you to do interlibrary loan. WorldCat may not include images or summaries for all titles.

Early medical Chicago : an historical sketch of the first practitioners of medicine : with the present faculties, and graduates since their organization, of the medical colleges of Chicago by James Nevins Hyde
Publication Date: 1879
Frank Billings : the architect of medical education, an apostle of excellence in clinical practice, a leader in Chicago medicine by Edwin F Hirsch
Publication Date: 1966
History of Medicine and Surgery and Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago by Biographical Publishing Corporation, Chicago Medical Society
Publication Date: 1922
Making Choices, Taking Chances by Thelma Schorr; Anne Zimmerman
ISBN: 0801646111

Publication Date: 1988
The Medical and Surgical Directory of Cook County, Illinois, 1888-89 by Physicians' Collection Association
Publication Date: 1888
Nicholas Senn: An Appreciation by S. M. Wylie
Publication Date: 1908
Proceedings of the testimonial banquet given in honor of Professor Christian Fenger by the medical profession by Christian Fenger, MD, et al
Publication Date: 1900

Proceedings of a testimonial banquet, November 3, 1900. To Dr. Christian Fenger on the Sixtieth Anniversary of His Birth, from those who know and love him best.
Prominent physicians, surgeons, and medical institutions of Cook County by Redheffer Art Publishing
Publication Date: 1899

Includes biographical sketches.
Saga of a Surgeon: The Life of Daniel Brainard, MD, with Bibliography and Selected Papers by Janet Kinney
ISBN: 0931369207

Publication Date: 1987

Biography of Daniel Brainard, MD, (1812-1866), a key figure in early Chicago. He established the city's first medical school, Rush Medical College, in 1837. He is considered the city's first surgeon, served as editor of the Illinois Medical and Surgical Journal, was involved in the establishment of Chicago's first chartered hospital (Mercy Hospital in 1852) and Cook County Hospital (which opened in 1857), and was also an organizer for the county and state medical societies. Brainard ran for mayor of Chicago in 1858, running as a Democrat and abolitionist.