Roswell Park, M.D.
1852-1914
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Dr. Roswell Park |
The Pan-Am Expo hospital |
Operating room - Exposition Hospital |
Section H in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery |
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Dr. Park's desk |
Dr. Park's desk drawer |
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Dr. Park moved to Buffalo from his hometown of Chicago in 1883 to serve as Professor of Surgery at the University of Buffalo. He was instrumental in the design of the Hospital Building on the Pan-Am grounds, but was in Niagara Falls, NY, when President McKinley as shot.
See Dr. Park's Report of the Medical Department of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 in the December 1901 Buffalo Medical Journal
Dr. Park was present at the Wilcox Mansion for the Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, and subsequently established the first cancer research in the world.
