WILLIAM HENRY WELKER, A.C., PH.D., 



Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in Columbia 



University, 191 1- 



MEMORANDUM WHICH WAS PRESENTED TG THE FACULTY OF MEDI- 

 CINE WITH DR. WELKER's NOMINATION TO THE ASSISTANT 



PROFESSORSHIP 



William Henry Welker was born in Red Hill, Pa., August 20, 

 1879. He received his early education in the public schools and 

 prepared for College at Perkiomen Seminary and Ursinus College. 

 He taught public school at Klinesville, Pa., during the terms of 

 1898-99 and 1899-1900, and graduated from Perkiomen Seminary 

 in the spring of 1900. He entered Lehigh University in the fall 

 of 1900 and graduated from Lehigh in 1904, receiving the degree 

 of Analytical Chemist. He was undergraduate instructor in gen- 

 eral chemistry at Lehigh in 1902-03 and 1903-04, and under- 

 graduate instructor in physics in 1903-04. 



He was appointed Assistant in Chemistry at Lehigh University 

 at the time of his graduation there in 1904, but resigned during the 

 summer of 1904 to accept the position of Assistant in Physiological 

 Chemistry in Columbia University, at the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons. On Dec. i, 1906, while occupying this position, he 

 became, in addition, Pathological Chemist in Obstetrics at the 

 Sloane Hospital for Women. 



In the fall of 1907 Dr. Welker resigned his Assistantships at 

 Columbia to accept the position of Demonstrator of Physiological 

 Chemistry in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 where he remained until theendof the academicyear 1909-'! o,when 

 he resigned to accept appointments to the positions of Associate in 

 Biological Chemistry at Columbia University and Pathological 

 Chemist at the German Hospital. In January, 191 1, he resigned 

 the latter position in order to devote himself wholly to the work 

 of the former in research under the auspices of the George Crocker 



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