CHAPTER XLIII 

 GEORGE M. KOBER, M.D., LL.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM 1914 TO 



DR. GEORGE M. KOBER served as president of the 

 National Tuberculosis Association during the year 1914- 

 1915 and presided over the very interesting meeting of 

 that year in Seattle. 



George Martin Kober, son of Jacob and Dorothea Behr Kober, 

 was born at Alsfeld, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, March 28, 

 1850. He was educated at the public and grand-ducal "Real- 

 schule" of his native town. His father was a revolutionist in 1848, 

 and had made a vow that none of his sons should serve under a 

 German king or any prince or potentate. His oldest son emi- 

 grated in 1854 an d served in the United States Cavalry on the 

 frontiers of Kansas, New Mexico, and Utah, and subsequently 

 throughout the Civil War. In April, 1867, the younger brother 

 George came to the United States, securing an assignment to 

 the Hospital Corps at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and commencing 

 his medical studies under Surgeon Joseph J. B. Wright, of the 

 United States Army. In January, 1870, he was appointed hos- 

 pital steward and was ordered to Frankforcl arsenal near Phila- 

 delphia, where he continued his studies under Dr. Robert B. 

 Burns until October, 1871, when he was ordered to duty in the 

 Surgeon General's office, Washington, D. C. He entered the 

 medical department of Georgetown University the same year, 

 following up his studies in addition to the regular courses under 

 the instruction of his preceptors, Drs. Johnson Eliot and Robert 

 Reyburn, and was graduated in March, 1873. In the following 

 winter he was the first graduate of a post-graduate course 

 inaugurated by Drs. Thompson, Busey, Ashford, and others, 

 at the Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C. 



In July, 1874, Dr. Kober was appointed acting assistant sur- 



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