Collection: Samuel Sturgis Booth ledger | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

Volume documents Samuel Booth Sturgis’ medical practice and work as proprietor and physicianinchief at Foot Hills Sanitorium, Lenoir, N.C., 19151917. Each account entry contains reason for visit, charge, and payment received. Many patients identified by profession; index to account names included. Related bills and prescriptions inserted. Several visits made in consultation with Sturgis’ wife, Margaret Castex Sturgis, a gynecologist. Notes in ledger indicate volume was superceded by patient record cards in 1917.

Dates

1915 - 1917

Creator

Sturgis, Samuel Booth (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Samuel Booth Sturgis was born in Lower Merion Township, Pa., on 2 May 1891. He married Margaret Castex Jones (18861962) in 1916. In 1964, Sturgis married Katherine R. Boucot. Samuel Booth Sturgis died at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia on 14 Aug. 1983. Sturgis received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1914. After serving an internship, 19141915, at Easton Hospital, Sturgis became proprietor and physicianinchief at the Foot Hills Sanitorium in Lenoir, N.C., and was physician to the surrounding countryside. In 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and went to France. He became Commanding Officer of Base Hospital No. 92. In 1919, Sturgis established a medical practice with his wife in Ardmore, Pa. From 1935 to 1946, he was also a physician at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He was elected to fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1927.