Dr. Willis H. Corson This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. www.ghosthaunts.com

   www.ghosthaunts.com/seattle-ge - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/18/2007   Last Visited: 11/29/2007

   The home was then purchased around 1912 by Dr. Willis H. Corson who was a former superintendent and head coroner of the King County Hospital, located close by.

2. 2. The Seattle Times: Seattle History

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   Published on: 4/28/2001   Last Visited: 11/3/2001

   Nominee : Dr. Willis H. Corson
   
   What they did : He was 8 years old when he arrived in Seattle with his grandfather , attended Denny School and the University of Washington when it was still located downtown. In his last year at the UW , he was captain of the varsity football team. With his fraternity brothers at Sigma Nu , he shoveled a ditch that was a start on the Montlake cut. After he received his medical degree at Stanford , he practiced in Georgetown and gave his services freely to prisoners at the county jail until he was shot under the right eyeball by an escaping prisoner. He carried a lead ball lodged under his brain for the rest of his life. He was superintendent of the county hospital in Georgetown in 1907-1912 and in 1929. He was the first superintendent of the Harborview County Hospital and nursing school and also served as county coroner. During World War I , he commanded a medical battalion that was loaned to the Italian government and served on the Austrian front in the Po River Valley.

3. 3. The Seattle Times: Seattle History

   seattletimes.nwsource.com/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/23/2002   Last Visited: 6/23/2002

   Nominee: Dr. Willis H. Corson
   
   What they did: He was 8 years old when he arrived in Seattle with his grandfather, attended Denny School and the University of Washington when it was still located downtown. In his last year at the UW, he was captain of the varsity football team. With his fraternity brothers at Sigma Nu, he shoveled a ditch that was a start on the Montlake cut. After he received his medical degree at Stanford, he practiced in Georgetown and gave his services freely to prisoners at the county jail until he was shot under the right eyeball by an escaping prisoner. He carried a lead ball lodged under his brain for the rest of his life. He was superintendent of the county hospital in Georgetown in 1907-1912 and in 1929. He was the first superintendent of the Harborview County Hospital and nursing school and also served as county coroner. During World War I, he commanded a medical battalion that was loaned to the Italian government and served on the Austrian front in the Po River Valley.