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Collection HapW : William Happ Collection

Description

Key

112621

Reference Code Element

HapW

Type

Text

Dates

1917-1918, inclusive

Creator

Personal name, Happ, William M.

Administrative/Biographical History

William M. Happ
2 March 1891- 1980
William Morris Happ was born in Macon, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1911 with a B.A. He received a M.D. from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1915. He was an interneat City Hospitals, Bayview from 1915-1916. He also was a dispensary physician at the Harriet Lane Home from 1916 to 1917 before becoming a First Lieutenant with the John Hopkins Hospital Base Hospital 18. Upon his return, Happ was an instructor in Pediatrics from 1919-1921. In the 1926 Johns Hopkins Half Century Directory, Happ is listed as a physician in Los Angeles, California.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1911-1921

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1919-1921

Scope and Content

The William Happ Collection consists of 4 folders in the larger World War I collection. The collection includes World War I related clippings and ephemera and a diary covering the period June to December, 1917. As First Lieutenant, William M. Happ, M.O.R.C. Base Hospital 18, he recorded in the diary the names of commanding officers, staff surgeons, physicians and the daily activities of a military officer.

Subjects - Name

Event name, World War I

Subjects

Topic, World War, 1914-1918

Language

English

Composed Of

Found 4 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
Clippings	242188	1917-1918	Folder	CollectionHapW- William Happ Collection
Dance card and dinner programs	242175	June 23, 1917, November 28, 1918	Folder	CollectionHapW- William Happ Collection
Embarkation Orders and lyrics to "Heigho to the Fatted Calf"	242182	January 30, 1919, circa 1917	Folder	CollectionHapW- William Happ Collection
Travel orders and ticket	242187	1917-1918	Folder	CollectionHapW- William Happ Collection

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