Name/Title
Thompson, George R., Superintendent, St. Joseph State Hospital No. 2, 1914-1917, FileEntry/Object ID
AM2019.1.29Scope and Content
Thompson, George R., Superintendent, St. Joseph State Hospital No. 2, 1914-1917, File. Photocopies made from materials provided by James Thompson, grandson of Dr. George R. Thompson. Includes news clipping concerning Thompson's time at the Hospital and photocopies of his photo.
Also included is information related to George R.'s son, Lloyd J. Thompson, M.D., including copies of chapters from unidentified book about Army Neuropsychiatry after World War II, written by Lloyd Thompson.
The file includes:
A = "Will be New Head of State Hospital No. 2" News Article with news photo of Dr. George R. Thompson., Article: "Stamp of Approval Upon State Hospital", undated.
B = News Photo: "Dr. Geo. R. Thompson, Superintendent State Hospital No. 2 and view of the Administration Building." Article: G.R. Thompson, A Physician Here in the 90's Dead" (Mercer County), undated
C = Thompson's Sanitarium and Rest home, Dr. George R. Thompson, Supt., 2202 Goff Avenue on 22nd Street Car Line. Advertisement, undated. News Photo of large home.
D = "White Men & Colored Women Join in the Mazy Waltz and Stately Quadrille." An undated article about men & women patients at State Hospital dancing together.
E = "Three Thompsons in the Army" news article with news photos of three of Geo. R. Thompson's sons", St. Joseph News-Press, Sept. 13, 1943.
F = Administrative Roster, 1874-1997, St. Joseph State Hospital Superintendents. List that includes George Thompson, 1914. List endas at 1938.
G = George R. Thompson, Portrait Photo, Seated
H = George R. Thompson, Portrait Photo, standing with top hat in hand.
I = Typescript of diary summary of Mrs. Geo. R. Thompson. Remarks of Thompson's appointment to State Hospital Medical Staff, 1902, by Democratic Governor; their residence & activities at the State Hospital; Dr. Thompson's loss of position in 1909 with the election of a Republican Governor; the establishment of Thompson's Sanitarium on Goff Avenue in 1909; its transfer to Dr. Bird in 1914, when a Democratic governor appointed Thompson as Superintendent, State Hospital No. 2
J = Lloyd James Thompson, M.D., Citation of Merit, Missouri State Medical Association, 1971. Includes biography: 1922-1925, he directed a private sanitarium in St. Joseph; later he was professor at both Harvard and Yale; In 1943, he was Senior Consultant in Neuropsychiatry for the European Theater of Operations & First service Command; he served on staff of Walter Reed Hospital.
K-N = Chapters VII-IX, and XI in unidentified book related to Army Neuropsychiatry by Lloyd J. Thompson, M.D.
---VII: Early Developments, Personnel, and Education and Traingin.
---VIII: Hospitals and Treatment
---IX: Neuropsychiatry at Army and Division Leves
---XI: Other Neuropsychiatric ServicesLexicon
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