Local Boy Chosen for Ford Hospital 1920

GARRETSON

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 6/8/2004 at 19:26:04

Salem Weekly News – March 11, 1920

Henry County Boy to Ford Hospital

Dr. Wendall T. Garretson, a former Henry County boy and graduate of the University of Iowa, will be connected with the Henry Ford $3,000,000 hospital of Detroit. Before the war, Dr. Garretson went to Scotland and worked in a hospital in Edinborough under one of the greatest eye, ear, and nose specialists in the world, who took him into his hospital upon the recommendation of some surgeons in Montreal, Canada, where he had worked for several years. When the war broke out, Dr. Garretson worked with British Army surgeons, later was given a commission with the rank of Captain in the American Red Cross and served in France.

He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Garretson of Salem.