Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Van Poole, Gideon McDonald  September 2, 1876 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

GIDEON MCDONALD VAN POOLE, Physician. A score of years as an officer in the 
United States army, including service in China during the Boxer uprising, in 
the Philippine insurrection, on the Mexican border, in France and other 
portions of the world, ending in retirement in 1920 for physical disability 
encountered in the line of duty, preceded Dr. G. M. Van Poole’s entrance into 
private practise in Hawaii.
  His first visit to the islands was in 1900 when he was on his way to China 
for service in the Boxer uprising. He returned to the mainland by way of 
Hawaii in 1902, but visited the Territory again in 1905 enroute to the 
Philippines. He passed through Honolulu in 1907 on his return from Manila and 
came for a three-year stay in 1913, when he was stationed at Schofield 
Barracks and later at department headquarters as attending surgeon. He 
returned to the mainland in 1916 and was assigned to the Mexican border, 
building and equipping a vase hospital at Eagle Pass, Tex. He taught in the 
Medical Officers’ school, Fort Benj. Harrison, Indiana, in preparing for 
America’s entrance into the World war. He later organized and equipped 
Evacuation Hospital No. 6 at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., (Camp Greenleaf) and took 
the organization to France in January, 1918.
  Dr. Van Poole served in two major engagements in France that resulted in the 
award of a decoration by France. His military retirement came in 1920 and he 
returned to Hawaii to reside. He is on the staff of the Queen’s Hospital, and 
is in charge of eye, ear, nose and throat work at Leahi Home, and on the staff 
of Palama Settlement.
  Born at Salisbury, N.C., on Sept. 2, 1876, he is the son of Otho and 
Lucretia (Lentz) Van Poole. He attended the University of North Carolina and 
was graduated from the University of Maryland at Baltimore with the degree of 
M.D. in 1899.
  His service in the army began in 1900 as an acting assistant surgeon. He 
progressed through the following ranks: First lieutenant and assistant 
surgeon, June 29, 1901; captain and assistant surgeon, June 29, 1906; major, 
Medical Corps, U.S.A., 1910; lieutenant-colonel, M.C., U.S.A., 1917; colonel, 
M.C., U.S.A., 1918; retired, January, 1920. Dr. Van Poole is a Scottish Rite 
Mason and a Shriner. He also is a member of the Chicago Athletic Club, 
Chicago, and the University Club, Honolulu. He married Margaret Schenck Van 
Dyke on June 14, 1910.


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