Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ayer, Richard Gilbert December 27, 1867 - 
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Source: the Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

RICHARD GILBERT AYER, physician. Organization and maintenance of the police 
emergency hospital in Honolulu has occupied much of the attention of Dr. R. G. 
Ayer since his arrival in Hawaii, in 1914. Engaging in private practice for a 
time, Dr. Ayer became affiliated with the municipal project, building up the 
hospital unit, then having but limited medical and surgical facilities, to its 
present high degree of efficiency. He has also been surgeon for the Honolulu 
Rapid Transit & Land Co., Ltd., since 1914.
  Dr. Ayer has had long and varied experience in hospital work, having spent 
14 years in Mexican hospitals and in private practice in Mexico before coming 
to Hawaii. He was affiliated with various hospital units in the states of 
Durango, Chihuahua and Zacatecas and participated in stirring events attending 
revolutionary outbreaks in the Mexican Republic.
  Born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., Dec. 27, 1867, Dr. Ayer is the son 
of Gilbert and Katherine (Hall) Ayer. His father was a shoe manufacturer. He 
was educated in private schools of Haverhill, Tilton Academy, Tilton, N.H.; 
Philips Andover, Andover, Mass., and Harvard University, receiving his M.D. 
degree at Harvard Medical School in 1891. He began his professional career in 
the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston.
  Dr. Ayer and Blanche Estelle Westcott were married Sept. 15, 1896, at 
Albany, N.Y. They have one daughter, Mildred Florence Stafford. Dr. Ayer is a 
member of various college organizations and the Medical Society of Hawaii.


Additional Comments:
According to the Directory of Deceased American Physicians DOD is March 30, 
1926.

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