CHAPTER LI 



GENERAL GEORGE M. STERNBERG, M.C., 



U.S.A. 



TREASURER OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQO4 TO IQI2 



SURGEON GENERAL GEORGE M. STERNBERG served 

 the National Tuberculosis Association as its faithful treas- 

 urer from the time of the formation of the society in 1904 

 to the year 1912. 



He was born June 8, 1838, in the city of New York and was the 

 son of the Rev. Levi and Margaret Levering Miller Sternberg. 

 He received his preliminary education at the Hartwick Seminary 

 of Otsego County, N. Y., and graduated in medicine from the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1860. 



General Sternberg was an honorary fellow of Johns Hopkins 

 University from 1880 to 1881 and from 1885 to 1887; he was 

 president of the American Public Health Association in 1887, of 

 the Washington Biological Society in 1896, the American Medical 

 Association in 1897, the Washington Philosophical Society in 

 1897, and the Association of Military Surgeons in 1899. He was 

 also a member of the American Bacteriological Society, the Asso- 

 ciation of American Physicians and of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



General Sternberg's career as a scientist, physician, medical 

 officer in the United States Army, and worker for the civic wel- 

 fare of Washington was indeed a brilliant one. Entering as an 

 assistant surgeon in 1861, he was made a captain and then major 

 in the United States Army "for faithful and meritorious services " 

 during the Civil War, and a lieutenant colonel "for gallant service 

 in performance of his professional duty under fire in action 

 against the Indians at Clearwater, Idaho, July 12, 1877." Gen- 

 eral Sternberg participated in many engagements, including the 

 first battle of Bull Run, on which occasion he was wounded and 



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