1881--Born February 20th in Galesville, MD

1908--Received MD from University of Maryland School of Medicine

1909--Commissioned as Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Marine Hospital and Public Health Service

1910--Married Lillian Hess Coleman

1909-13--Medical Officer at Reedy Island Quarantine Station, Port Penn, DE

1912--Marine Hospital and Public Health Service redesignated Public Health Service

1913-19--Medical Officer at Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York

1914--Harrison Narcotics Act passed

1919-23--Medical Officer in Charge (Superintendent), Public Health Service Hospital #37 (Neuropsychiatric), Waukesha, WI

1923-28--Conducted studies of drug addiction at PHS Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, DC

1928-31--Conducted study of mental examinations of prospective immigrants by PHS officers stationed at American consulates in Europe; based in Dublin, Ireland

1932-1934--Chief Medical Officer (Superintendent), U. S. Department of Justice Medical Center (Hospital for Defective Delinquents), Springfield, MO

1934-38--Medical Officer in Charge (Superintendent), PHS Narcotic Hospital, Lexington, KY

1938-1944--Assistant Surgeon General and Chief, PHS Division of Mental Hygiene, Washington, DC

1945--Retired from PHS in March

1945-1951--Consultant to State of California Department of Corrections, then Deputy Director of California State Department of Mental Hygiene

1949--National Institute of Mental Health established

1951-52--Assistant Superintendent, Norristown State Hospital, Norristown, PA

1952-1954--Secretary, Philadelphia Mental Health Survey, Philadelphia, PA

1962--Published Drug Addiction: A Medical Problem

1965--Received Thomas W. Salmon award from New York Academy of Medicine

1972--Died, November 17, in Bethesda, MD