Lydia B Edwards M.D.1

#23327, (3 June 1905 - 7 November 2001)
Relationship3rd cousin 1 time removed of Estelle Rose Roche
Father*Edmund Baker Edwards1 (c 1875 - )
Mother*Rhoda Janet Walker1 (1877 - )
Lydia B. Edwards, b. Berkely CA, A.B. (1927) Radcliffe College, M.D (1932) Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1932. Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins 1932-1940; United States Public Health Service 1944-1973; Director of the World Health Organization Tuberculosis Research Office 1948-1955 and medical officer in the USPHS tuberculosis research office 1955-1973.2 
Birth*3 June 1905She was born on 3 June 1905 at Berkeley, California.1 
Death*7 November 2001She died on 7 November 2001 at Carleton Willard Village, Belmont, Massachusetts, at age 96.3 

Citations

  1. [S1658] U.S. Passport Applications, Jan. 2, 1906 - Mar. 31, 1925, Publication M1490, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, District of Columbia, online Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, Application No. 170029 of Rhoda Walker Edwards, 19 Apr 1922, q.v.
  2. [S2057] Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, online http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu, http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/papers/edwards_lb.html
  3. [S2058] GenLookups.com, online http://www.genlookups.com/, Obituary, no source given. " Lydia B. Edwards, MD, 96, died Nov. 7, 2001, at Carleton Willard Village in Bedford." Lydia B Edwards, b. Berkeley CA 6 Jun 1905, dau. of Edmund B Edwards and Rhoda Walker; education Ecole Superieure in Brussels, Belgium, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, University of Rome, University of Paris, Radcliffe (1927), and Johns Hopkins Medical School in (1932).
    "In 1946, Dr. Edwards, by then a colonel, joined the National Institutes of Health Tuberculosis Research Program in Bethesda, Md., and in 1948, was asked by the World Health Organization to help expand the UNICEF program to stamp out tuberculosis throughout the world. From 1948 to 195, she was based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and during that time traveled throughout Europe, India, Russia, and Japan to support and oversee the program."
    Survivors nephew Edmund Edwards Ackerson, niece Rhoda Ackerson Weyr, and 29 family members "who claim her as if grandmother and great-grandmother."