Allan Huston Adams, 1891
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of Allan Huston Adams (1878-1928). This picture was taken when he was 13 years old.
- Notes
- Allan Huston Adams was born at Whitby on January 6, 1878, son of Dr. Wellington Adams and Ellen I. Huston. He entered the University of Toronto, gaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901 and Bachelor of Medicine in 1904. He then took post graduate work at the Toronto General Hospital and the Gravenhurst Sanitarium. He became the first physician at the Weston Sanitarium, and was in general practice since 1904. He was superintendent of the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptive Poor until being appointed to the staff of the Toronto General Hospital in 1905, and remained there until his death. He was elected First Vice-President of the downtown Toronto Kiwanis Club in 1925, and was a member of the Alpine Club, the Arts and Letters Club and Pi Cappa Pi Fraternity of the University of Toronto. Dr. Adams died at Toronto on January 14, 1928, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
- Date of Original
- 1891
- Dimensions
-
Width: 3.5 cm
Height: 4 cm
- Image Dimensions
-
Image Width: 3.5cm
Image Height: 4cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-009-512
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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