MSS 39 John L. Wilson

John L. Wilson
1914-2001
MSS 39

Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center
Contact Information
Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94035
Phone: (650) 725-8045
Email: lanearchives@lists.stanford.edu

See also: Medical Staff Update, Dec. 10, 2003
Dr. Wilson's book

Box 1

Box no.	Contents
1.0	Miscellaneous items.
1.1	John Long Wilson, Curriculum vitae and other biographical materials.
1.2	John Long Wilson, Biography in question and answer format.
1.3	Shantung Christian University (Cheloo).
1.4	Medical Education in the Middle East.
1.5	American University of Beirut.
1.6	First Eastern Mediterranean Regional Conference on Medical Education.
1.7	Stanford and the Regional Medical Programs.
1.8	Health care and medical education Syria and North Yemen, 1979.

Correspondence

Box no.	Contents
1.9	Letter to Mrs. Brinckerhoff, daughter of Dr. Alson R. Kilgore.
1.10	Establishment of Lane Medical Archives; writing of History of SUSM, 1984-9.
1.11	Appointment of John L. Wilson as Honorary Curator of Archives, 1990.
1.12	Correspondence with faculty and administration, showing value of historical data in History of SUSM in current decision making or information needs. Drs. Melmon, Chase, Vosti, Dean Bauer, President Casper, Spyrous Andreopoulos.
1.13	History of SUSM, Correspondence,1996-7.
1.14	History of SUSM, Correspondence,1998, Jan.-May.
1.15	History of SUSM, Correspondence, June 1998-1999.
1.16	Official announcement of Online Publication of History of SUSM History of Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools, by John L. Wilson.

SOURCE MATERIAL for the writing of History of the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools.
Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper was the founder in 1858 of the first medical school in California, called the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific. He was the uncle of Levi Cooper Lane, who continued his dedication to medical education over the next forty years. Cooper’s papers are in the California Historical Society Library in San Francisco as MS 458. Dr. Wilson’s transcripts and photocopies of these are filed in his papers.

Box 2

Box no.	Contents
2.1	American Library Directory.
2.2	California State Libraries and Maritime Museum Library.
2.3	Ohio, Cincinnati Historical Society.
2.3a	Ohio, Butler County Historical. Soc., Curator Helen Miller.
2.4	Ohio, Cincinnati, Public Library.
2.5	Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana.
2.6	Meadville, (Pa) Historical Soc., Allegheny College Library.
2.7	Jefferson Medical College.
2.8	Chicago Public Library.
2.9	Chicago Historical Society.
2.10	National Library of Medicine.
2.11	St. Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library.
2.12	San Francisco Public Library, Golden Era.
2.13	San Francisco Public Library, Gladys Hansen.
2.14	Union College Library.
2.15	University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
2.16	Washington University School of Medicine, Archives.
2.17	University of Pacific Library, Donald Walker, Archivist.
2.18	U.C. Berkeley, University Archives, William Roberts, Archivist.
2.15	University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
2.19	Miami University Library.

Illinois libraries and other Illinois sources

Box no.	Contents
2.20	Medical Societies in Illinois.
2.21	Victoria Hineman, M. D.
2.22	Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine Library.
2.23	University of Iowa, School of Medicine Library.
2.24	Knox College Archives.
2.25	Danville Public Library.
2.26	Illinois State Historical Library.
2.27	Vermillion County Medical Society.
2.28	History of Medical Practice in Illinois v. 1.
2.29	Moline Public Library, Mississippi River Travel.
2.30	Peoria Historical Society and Bradley University Library.
2.31	Peoria Medical Society.
2.32	Peoria Public Library.
2.33	Knox County Medical Society.
2.34	Illinois State Medical Society.
2.35	Illinois History Society Atlas/Encyclopedia, Vermillion and Knox Counties, Danville.
2.36	Rush/St. Luke's Medical Center.

California Historical Society Library (CHSL)
MS 458 Elias Samuel Cooper Collection and MS 3119 San Francisco Medico Chirurgical Association Collection

Box no.	Contents
2.37	California Historical Society - Correspondence 1989 - 95.
2.38	California Historical Society - Correspondence 1991.
2.39	California Historical Society - Correspondence 1992.
2.40	CHSL (California Historical Society Library) MS 458, E. S. Cooper Collection, Finding Aid.
2.41	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 1 Correspondence 1844-54.
2.42	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 2 Correspondence 1855.
2.43	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 3 Correspondence 1856.
2.44	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 4 Correspondence 1857-62.
2.45	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1 Folders 5, 6 Correspondence, no date.
2.46	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 7 Printed Material.
2.47	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 1, Folder 8 Autobiographical.
2.48	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper Coll., Box 2, Folders 9-12 ESC Scrapbook.
2.49	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 2, Folder 13 Notes malpractice suit.
2.50	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 3, Folders 14-6 Emge Research material.
2.51	CHSL MS 458 E. S. Cooper College, Box 3 Photocopies Emge Research material.
2.52	CHSL MS 3119 San Francisco Medico-Chirurgical Association Notes.
2.53	CHSL MS 3119 San Francisco Medico-Chirurgical Association Photocopies.

Genealogy of Cooper Family

Box no.	Contents
2.54	Cooper family genealogy, South Carolina libraries.
2.55	Cooper family genealogy, Quakers / Puritanism.
2.56	Cooper family genealogy, Dorothy Biggs.
2.57	Cooper/Lane family genealogy, Julian Brenner.
2.58	Cooper family genealogy, miscellaneous correspondence, Bostick, Moore, Nuthall.
2.59	Cooper family genealogy, N. Wayne Phillips.
2.60	Cooper family genealogy, from Rixford correspondence.
2.61	Cooper family genealogy, Richard Drain.
2.62	Cooper family genealogy, Ruth Ragsdale .
2.63	Cooper family genealogy, J. McDonnell and Jacob Cooper's diary.

John McDonnell Material, Jacob Cooper's Diary, Photographs

Box no.	Contents
2.64	John McDonnell and Jacob Cooper's diary, correspondence 1993-98.
2.65	Jacob Cooper's diary, vol.2, 1854-7 E. S. Cooper's visit to Europe, other excerpts.
2.66	Jacob Cooper's autobiography and ancestry.
2.67	Jacob Cooper's diary, vol. 7, L. C. Lane's death and Jacob's visit to San Francisco in 1902.
2.68	Jacob Cooper's role in Dr. C. N. Ellinwood's honorary LLD degree from Rutgers Univ. in 1903.
2.69	Photograph of Elias Samuel Cooper, taken from a large framed portrait, also in the Archives. The three brothers.
2.70	Esaias Samuel Cooper, Elias Samuel Cooper, and Jacob Cooper, taken sometime before 1855. All the originals of these photographs and the portrait are through the courtesy of John McDonnell.
2.71	Cooper family pictures, including Jacob, Jacob’s son and wife and daughter, and Jacob’s mother and sister, also courtesy John McDonnell. The photograph of Lydia Cooper Gauss is courtesy of Mrs. Dorothy Biggs.
2.72	Photographs, Cooper homestead in Ohio, filed lengthwise in Box 2, courtesy of Mrs. Dorothy Biggs and John McDonnell.

Box 3
Research Materials Biographical in alphabetical order

Box no.	Contents
3.1	Abrams, Albert, M.D. (1863-1924).
3.2	Armor, Samuel G., M.D. (1819-1953).
3.3	Arnold, John D., M.D. (1820-63) and Hall, Thomas M.D. (1805-76) both of Toulon, Illinois.
3.4	Ayer, Washington, M.D. (1823-99).
3.5	Barkan, Adolph, M.D. (1845-1935 and Barkan, Hans, M.D. (1882-1960).
3.6	Barstow, George, M.D. (1825-83).
3.7	Bowie, Augustus J., M.D. (1815-87.
3.8	Brainard, Daniel, M.D., (1812-66).
3.9	Carman, Benjamin R., M.D.
3.10	Cole, Richard Beverly, M.D. (1829-1901) and photograph with negative
3.11	Cooper, Esaias, M.D. (1819-93).
3.12	Drake, Daniel, M.D. (1785-1852) and Freer, Joseph Warren,M.D. (1816-77).
3.13	Gibbons, Henry, Jr. M.D. (1840-1911).
3.14	Gibbons, Henry, Sr. M.D. (1808-84).
3.15	Gibbons, Henry III, M.D. (1906- ).
3.16	Gray, Henry M., M.D. (1821-63).
3.17	Hager, John S., (1818-?) Judge at ESC's trial and Hammond, William, M.D. (1824-1905).
3.18	Holman, Emile, M.D. (1890-1970).
3.19	Hoover, Herbert Clark (1974-1964).
3.20	Hopkins, Mark (1813-78).
3.21	Lane, Levi Cooper, M.D. (1830-1902) Bibliography and Biographies.
3.22	Lane, Levi Cooper, M.D. (1830-1902) Diaries, notebooks and earnings.
3.23	Lane, Levi Cooper, M.D. (1830-1902) and Pauline C. Lane (18??-1902) Remains.
3.24	Logan, Thomas Muldrup, M.D. (1808-76).
3.25	Morse, John Frederick, M.D. (1815-74).
3.26	Ophuls, William, M.D. (1871-1933).
3.27	Pope, Charles Alexander, M.D. (1818-70) and portrait and school with negative.
3.28	Rixford, Emmet, M.D. (1865-1938).
3.28a	Rowell, Isaac, M.D.
3.29	Spencer, Alexander J., M.D. (? - 1885).
3.30	Stanford, Leland (1824-1893) & Stanford, Jane (1828-1905).
3.31	Stillman, Stanley, M.D. (1861-1934) & Stout, Arthur B., M.D. (1814-98).
3.31a	Taylor, Edward Robeson, M.D, L.L.D. (1838-1923).
3.32	Toland, Hugh Huger, M.D. (1806-80) and portrait with negative.
3.33	Wilbur, Ray Lyman, M.D. (1875-1949).
3.34	Wooster, David, M.D. (1825-94).

Research Materials Chapter Order

Box no.	Contents
3.35	"Index,” Chapter Outlines.
3.36	Preface, Chapter Outlines.
3.37	Chapter 1, Notes 2, 3, 4.
3.38	Chapter 2, Notes Cumberland Gap, Wilderness Road, Northwest Ordinance.
3.39	Chapter 3 Notes.
3.40	Chapter 4 F. Trollope and miscellaneous documents, John Morgan bios., and George Washington.
3.41	Chapter 4 Notes and early version.
3.42	Chapter 4 Additional material, gathered, but not used in Chapter 4.
3.43	Chapter 4 Dissection and grave robbing.
3.44	Chapter 5a Notes, Cholera.
3.45	Chapter 6a Notes O. W. Holmes and chloroform.
3.46	Chapter 7 Notes.
3.47	Chapter 8 Notes.
3.48	Chapter 9 Notes.
3.49	Chapter 11 Notes.
3.50	Chapter 15 Founding, Medical Department of University of the Pacific.
3.50a	Chapter 15 PMSJ First medical registries of California physicians.
3.51	Chapter 16-18 ESC Operations, references.
3.51a	References, annotated.
3.51b	Pictures, list used in book.
3.52	Chapter 19 ESC remains.
3.53	Chapter 21 Medical College of Pacific faculty protests published account of their appointment to University of California Medical Department.
3.54	Chapter 22-24 Opening of Dispensary, Inclusion of women in AMA.
3.55	Chapter 25 Miscellaneous.
3.56	Chapter 26 Miscellaneous.
3.57	Chapter 27 History of Association of American Medical Colleges.
3.58	Chapter 30 Notes on original documents re transfer of Cooper Medical College.
3.59	Chapter 31 Miscellenoua, includes portions of Flexner report. Chapter 33 Full time system and Academic Medical Centers material is filed as 4.51 – 4.55.
3.60	Chapter 34 Request for grant from General Education. Bd., Branner-Wilbur correspondence.
3.61	Chapter 35 Future development of School of Medicine.
3.62	Chapter 37 Program for Education at Stanford, move to Campus.
3.63	Chapter 37 Cuban, Larry, “Change & Reform”.
3.64	Chapter 38 Purchase of Palo Alto share of Hospital, Dean Robert Glaser, and Epilog.
3.65	Appendices, includes those prepared but not used. 1. Chronology Stanford University School of Medicine and Predecessor Schools 1858 – 1898. 2. Deans, SUSM and Predecessor Schools 1858-1998. 3. Presidents, Stanford University 1891-1998 (actually Governance). 4. Bibliographies, Elias Samuel Cooper. Original articles and commentaries 1849 - 62, # 1-139. Editorials and other commentary in San Francisco Medical Press, Jan 1, 1860 – Apr, 1862. #1-128. 5. Appendices, prepared but not used. Number of graduates, medical classes, predecessor schools. Ancestry of ESC and LCL.
3.66	Miscellaneous material – considered using for book but did not use.

Elias S. Cooper, Biography and Necrology

Box no.	Contents
3.67	ESC, Biographical and Chronological Material and Notes.
3.68	ESC, Biographies.
3.69	ESC, Illness, Death, Obituary, Heart and Brain (photograph and negative).

Elias S. Cooper Articles, Chronological Order

Box no.	Contents
3.70	ESC, Articles, 1840 - 1850.
3.71	ESC, Articles, 1851.
3.72	ESC, Articles, 1852 - 1854.
3.73	ESC, Articles, 1856 - 1857.
3.74	ESC, Articles, 1858.
3.75	ESC, Articles, 1859.
3.76	ESC, Articles, 1860.
3.77	ESC, Articles, 1861.
3.78	ESC, Articles, 1862.

Box 4
E. S. Cooper, Writings, Reviews, Editorials, Responses to His Writings

Box no.	Contents
4.1	ESC, Introductory Lecture Anatomy, Peoria 1848-9.
4.2	ESC, Ligation of Satellite Veins - 1857.
4.3	ESC, Caesarian section trial.
4.3a	Emge, L., “California's first Caesarian section.”
4.4	Scalpel, N.Y., E.H.Dixon's attack on ESC.
4.5	ESC, Ligation of the innominate artery for aneurism. - 1859.
4.6	ESC's operations, reviewed in other journals.
4.7	ESC/David Wooster controversy, Honorary degree for a "notorious charlatan".
4.8	ESC cases - San Francisco Daily Times 1858, Jan.
4.9	Brainard, D., Air in joints and other references.
4.10	Butler and Levis, editors Medical and Surgical Reporter, Comments on medical ethics and societies in California.
4.11	S.F. Medical Press 1860 E.S. Cooper-Editorials, commentaries, reports.
4.12	S.F. Medical Press 1861 E.S. Cooper-Editorials, commentaries, reports.
4.13	S.F. Medical Press 1862 E.S. Cooper-Editorials, commentaries, reports .
4.14	E S Cooper Coll. CHSL MS 458, Financial records, will, info on Reay.

Research Materials, Subject Order
Medical Societies

Box no.	Contents
4.15	National Medical Convention 1846-47.
4.16	Transactions AMA, vol. 1 1848.
4.17	Transactions AMA, vol. 2 1849.
4.18	Transactions AMA, vol. 3 1850.
4.19	Transactions AMA, vol. 4 1851.
4.20	Transactions AMA, vol. 5 1852.
4.21	Transactions AMA, vol. 6 1853.
4.22	Transactions AMA, vol. 7 1854.
4.23	Transactions AMA, vol. 8 1855.
4.24	Transactions AMA, vol. 9 1856.
4.25	Transactions AMA, vol. 11 1858.
4.26	Transactions AMA, vol. 12 1860.
4.27	Transactions AMA, vol. 17 1866.
4.28	Proceedings of Medical Convention for purpose of organizing Illinois State Medical Soc. 1850 and Proceedings and Transactions 1851-54.
4.29	Transactions, Illinois State Medical Soc., 1854-5.
4.30	California State Medical Soc., Chronology, General.
4.31	California State Medical Soc., ESC's letter to members.
4.32	California State Medical Soc., Sacramento Daily Union and SF Daily Evening Press.
4.33	California State Medical Soc., Mtgs. 1856, 57, 58.
4.34	California State Medical Soc., Mtgs. 1859, 1860-1.

Early California Medical Journals & Rixford Papers

Box no.	Contents
4.35	Early California Medical Journals.
4.36	Emmet Rixford, M.D. publications.

Predecessor School Period

Box no.	Contents
4.37	Minutes, Med. Dept. of the Univ. of the Pacific, 1870 - 74, Notes.
4.38	University City College, notes, articles.
4.39	Toland Medical College, Faculty Minutes, 5 Nov. 1864 - 31 Oct. 1872.
4.40	Minutes, Med. College of the Pacific, Aug. 1874 - Nov.1877, vol. 2 and Dec. 1877 - Nov. 1882, vol. 3.
4.41	Cooper Medical College, architecture.
4.42	Johns Hopkins Hospital, opening.
4.43	Predecessor school graduates, George Chismore, Medical College of the Pacific 1873, Charles Furley, Med. Dept. Univ. of the Pacific, 1860 and John C Handy, an ESC protégé.
4.44	Annual Announcements of Medical Colleges (1861 & earlier) Notes. (Originals of these are in locked collection H119H, P19, vol. 3).
4.45	Cooper Medical College, murder mystery, 1895.
4.46	Cooper Medical College Annual Reports, 1895-1907.
4.47	Cooper Medical College, Minutes, Board of Directors 1890-1912, Notes.

Transition Period and Addenda

Box no.	Contents
4.48	Stanford University Bd. of Trustees - Correspondence and Resolutions re: acquisition of Cooper Medical College.
4.49	Cooper Medical College - Correspondence with D. S. Jordan re: transfer of CMC to Stanford.
4.50	H.S. Gibbons, Jr.- H. W. Pritchett correspondence re: Flexner Report.
4.51	Academic Medical Centers (Chapter 33).
4.52	Full-time System (Chapter 33).
4.53	Roy Cohn, Notes on full-time system at Stanford (Chapter 33).
4.54	Medical School Data 1989-90 (Chapter 33).
4.55	Letter from W. T. Councilman to William Ophuls (Chapter 33).
4.56	Illustrations.
4.57	History of Stanford University School of Medicine, early drafts and notes.

Box 5
History of Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools

Box no.	Contents
5.1	History of SUSM…Chapter 1 Introduction and notes.
5.2	History of SUSM…Chapter 2 and notes. Elias Samuel Cooper and the American Frontier.
5.3	History of SUSM…Chapter 3 and notes. Quaker Heritage of Elias Samuel Cooper.
5.4	History of SUSM... Chapter 4 and notes. Education of Elias Samuel Cooper and Levi Cooper Lane, and Appendix 3, Ancestry.
5.5	History of SUSM…Chapter 5a and notes. Elias Samuel Cooper and 19th Century Medicine.
5.6	History of SUSM…Chapter 6a and notes. The Zealous Anatomist of Peoria.
5.7	History of SUSM…Chapter 7 and notes. A Long Farewell to Peoria.
5.8	History of SUSM…Chapter 8. San Francisco, the Master Plan.
5.9	History of SUSM…Chapter 9. Early Medical Societies in California.
5.10	History of SUSM…Chapter 10. Founding of the Medical Society of the State of California.
5.11	History of SUSM…Chapter 11. The Vigilance Committee of 1856.
5.12	History of SUSM…Chapter 12. Second Annual Session of the State Medical Society and Some Notable Surgical Cases.
5.13	History of SUSM…Chapter 13. Conspiracy and Betrayal.
5.14	History of SUSM…Chapter 14. The Malpractice Trial.
5.15	History of SUSM…Chapter 15. Founding Medical Department of the University of the Pacific 1858. Includes transcript of holograph documents.
5.16	History of SUSM…Chapter 16. First and Second Annual Sessions Medical Department, University of the Pacific 1859 – 1860.
5.17	History of SUSM…Chapter 17. Third and Fourth Annual Sessions Med. Dept., Univ. of the Pacific and Demise of Medical Societies.
5.18	History of SUSM…Chapter 18. Professor Elias Samuel Cooper, University Surgeon and Appendices 4a and 4b.
5.19	History of SUSM…Chapter 19. The Last Days of Elias Samuel Cooper.
5.19a	History of SUSM…References Chapters 1 – 19.

Box 5a
History of Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools

Box no.	Contents
5a.20	History of SUSM…Chapter 20. Suspension of Medical Dept. Univ. of the Pacific and Founding of Toland Medical College 1864.
5a.21	History of SUSM…Chapter 21. Revival of Med. Dept. Univ. of the Pacific 1870 and founding of Med. Dept. Univ. of Calif. 1873.
5a.22	History of SUSM…Chapter 22. Medical College of the Pacific established 1872 and National Efforts to Reform Medical Education.
5a.23	History of SUSM…Chapter 23. Educational Reform at Medical College of the Pacific 1872 – 1882.
5a.24	History of SUSM…Chapter 24. Founding of Cooper Medical College 1882.
5a.25	History of USM…Chapter 25. Perfidy and Progress 1885 – 1895.
5a.26	History of SUSM…Chapter 26. Lane Hospital 1895.
5a.27	History of SUSM…Chapter 27. Evaluation of Cooper Medical College 1901 – 1902.
5a.28	History of SUSM…Chapter 28. Fateful Year 1902.
5a.29	History of SUSM…Chapter 29. The Ellinwood Affair 1905 – 1907.
5a.30	History of SUSM…Chapter 30. Consolidation with Stanford University 1906 – 1912.
5a.31	History of SUSM…Chapter 31. Transition to University Department 1908 – 1912.
5a.32	History of SUSM…Chapter 32. Trustees Defend the Medical Department.
5a.33	History of SUSM…Chapter 33. The Clinical Full-Time System.
5a.34	History of SUSM…Chapter 34. Dean Wilbur’s Administration 1911 – 1915.
5a.35	History of SUSM…Chapter 35. Dean Ophuls’ Administration 1916 – 1933.
5a.36	History of SUSM…Chapter 36. Dean Loren R. Chandler’s Administration 1933 – 1953. Includes information on San Francisco years.
5a.37	History of SUSM…Chapter 37. The New Stanford Medical Center Planning and Building, 1953 - 1959.
5a.38	History of SUSM…Chapter 38. Consolidation of Stanford University Medical Center July 1, 1968.
5a.39	History of SUSM References Chapters 20 – 38.

updated March 9, 2007