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John Barlow Youmans 1893-1968contributed by John F. Barlow |
| Edson Barlow writes:
I believe Dr. John Barlow Youmans was the son of Dr. Laurel Elmer Youmans (1863 - 1926), a Mukwonago, Wisconsin physician, and Miriam Lois Barlow, a descendant of George Barlow of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Volume 36 page 243 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lemuel Barlow, (1758-1813), served as a private in the
Berkshire County militia under Capt. William Francis and
Capt. Josiah Yale. He was born in Barnstable; died in Lee,
Massachusetts. |
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John B. Youmans (1893-1968) was born in Mukwango, Wisconsin. He earned his batchelors and masters degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and received his M.D. degree from the John Hopkins Medical School in 1919. From the beginning of his medical career, Dr. Youmans was interested in human nutrition. He joined the Vanderbilt University staff in 1927 and remained there until he was commissioned in the Army Medical Service in 1944. Colonel Youmans was Chief of the Nutrition Division of the Preventive Medicine Service within the Army Surgeon General's Office. He carried out nutrition surveys in China and the Pacific and European theaters. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his wartime service and is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. After his retirement from the military in 1946, Dr. Youmans returned to academia as Dean and Professor of the College of Medicine, University of Illinois. He returned to Vanderbilt in 1949 to be the Dean, Professor of Medicine and Director of Medical Affairs until he retired in 1958. Throughout his professional career, he served as consultant and field director of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense, a subdivision of the National Research Council. |
Dr. John B. Youmans was a faculty member in the Department
of Medicine at Vanderbilt from 1927 to 1946, and again from
1950 to 1958. He carried out nutrition surveys in nearby
Williamson County in the late 1930s and published a book
on nutrition for medical students (Nutritional Deficiencies,
J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1941, 385 pp.). He served
in the military during World War II as Director of the Nutrition
Division, Preventive Medical Service, Office of the Surgeon
General. After the war he was instrumental in initiating
the extensive nutrition survey work in developing countries
carried out by the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition
for National Defense. Several other Vanderbilt faculty members
were active in those surveys.
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