Frank Meeker Rumbold M.D. - n.d.
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Frank Meeker Rumbold, M.D. This is preeminently an age of specialization, and he who attains distinction or eminence does not dissipate his energies over a broad field of labor, but concentrates them upon the thorough mastery of one special branch of science or labor. Following this course, Dr. Frank Meeker Rumbold has confined his practice to treatment of the diseases of the nose, throat, and ear and has gained much more than local distinction as a representative of this department of the medical science. A native of Meeker Grove, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, he was born January 4, 1862. He traces his ancestry back to Colonel Richard Rumbold, who was connected with the military forces under the immediate command of Cromwell. A representative of a family of English origin he was descended from St. Rumbold, who was canonized with Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century. Colonel Richard Rumbold was proprietor of Ryehouse castle and was leader of the Ryehouse plot, but later was captured and hung at Edinburgh because of his opposition to the monarchy. He was one of Cromwell
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[page 426] 1371 Arcade Bldg. ST. LOUIS, THE FOURTH CITY. charge o fall the public bath houses and playgrounds of this city; Mrs. Robert d. Kohn, a sculptress, of New York city; Mrs. Albert J. Houston, Jr., of San Francisco; and Miss Caroline T. Rumbold, who is assistant to the professor of botany in the State University of Columbia, Missouri. She won the A.B. degree at Smith College, the A.M. degree at Washington University, and in 1907 took a doctor of philosophy degree at Munich. Dr. Rumbold spent his boyhood in St. Louis, coming to this city in 1868. He attended the public schools and Washington University, being graduated from the medical department in 1884, when he won his degree. The same year he located for practice in St. Louis, where he has since continued in the active prosecution of his profession, save that during the Spanish-American war he served as captain of Light Battery
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| Title | Frank Meeker Rumbold M.D. - n.d. |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Source | Unknown. Frank Meeker Rumbold M.D. n.d. Rumbold, Frank M., General Collection. A1331. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Frank M. Rumbold biography of his life including his medical practice and early military career. Frank Meeker Rumbold served as Colonel of the 128th Field Artillery during World War I. He later served as Adjutant General of Missouri from 1925 to 1927. |
| Subject LCSH | Spanish-American War; Missouri. National Guard |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1331 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | n.d. |
| Language | English |