Physician
Centurion, 1910–1944
Born 18 April 1874 in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
Died 3 February 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Green Mount Cemetery
, Baltimore, Maryland
Proposed by Samuel W. Lambert and Simon Flexner
Elected 5 March 1910 at age thirty-five
Archivist’s Note: Son of G. A. MacCallum; elected before his father
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
William George MacCallum. [Born] 1874. Pathologist. Born in Canada; graduated from Johns Hopkins in the first class of the Medical School; pathologist there till 1909 when he came to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this city as Professor of Pathology; returned to Johns Hopkins in 1917 in succession to Dr. Welch for the rest of his long career; in New York instituted reform of coroners, converting them into medical examiners possessing degrees in medicine; author of a widely used “Textbook of Pathology”; far roving traveller and student; reserved in manner, fastidious in thought, a scientist whose ideals were of the purest.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945
