Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hagood, Rufus H. November 21, 1887 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com September 13, 2011, 5:35 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925. Author: Edited by George F. Nellist RUFUS H. HAGOOD, JR., Physician. Coming to Hawaii in 1920, after service as an army surgeon, Dr. Rufus H. Hagood, Jr., was physician for the Makee Sugar Co. at Kealia, Kauai, for four years and in 1924 entered practice in Honolulu, specializing on the eye, ear and nose. Born Nov. 21, 1887, at Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Hagood is the son of Rufus H. and America (Walker) Hagood. He received his education in the public schools of Birmingham, later attending Washington and Lee University and Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, where he received an M.D. degree in 1911. Serving as interne in Pennsylvania Hospital from 1911 to 1912, Dr. Hagood became assistant superintendent of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital for the Insane in 1913. He entered the United States Army, medical division, in 1914 and was graduated later from the Flight Surgeons’ School, Medical Research Laboratory, Air Service, U.S.A., Mineola, Long Island, N.Y. Before the World war he was stationed at various posts in the United States and during the war was sanitary inspector, port of embarkation, Hoboken, N.Y., leaving the service in 1919. In 1924 Dr. Hagood took post-graduate work at Rochester, Minn., and has also followed special medical studies in New York and Philadelphia. He married Anita Pettit at Philadelphia, Nov. 15, 1912. They have four children, Rufus H. III, Charles Pettit, Ruth H. and Robert Walker Hagood. Dr. Hagood is a member of the Hawaiian Medical Society. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/hagood4gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb