Bio of HEAD, Dr. George Douglas, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

GEORGE DOUGLAS HEAD, M. D. - Vol II, pg 53-54
Among those who are by the consensus of public opinion accorded leadership in
the medical profession in Minnesota, is Dr. George Douglas Head of Minneapolis,
who now engaged in professional practice as a consultant in medicine. A native
of Minnesota, he is a son of Newell S. and Mary Elizabeth (Douglas) Head and
comes ancestry that has been represented on American soil for many generations.
His father was born in and in early manhood lived near Utica, New York, but
moved west-ward soon after the Civil war and settled near Elgin, Minnesota,
since which time the family has been connected with this state. His mother comes
of colonial stock and is a descendant of Captain Asa Douglas of Plainfield,
Connecticut, who participated in the Revolutionary war and led a company of
"Silver Grays" at the Battle of Bennington August 16, 1777.
Having completed his preliminary training, George Douglas Head entered the
University of Minnesota in 1885, and was graduated in the class of 1892.
Choosing the practice of medicine as his life work, he continued at the
University as a medical student, paying his way by tutoring, until his
graduation in the class of 1895. He then entered the active practice of his
profession, to which he devoted the succeeding ten years of his life. At the end
of that period he went abroad for postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria, spending
the year 1905 in preparation for his specialty. Again in 1909 he took
postgraduate work in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, studying with Dr.
Byrom Bramwell. At various periods he has taken postgraduate work in this
country at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, under the celebrated Dr. Osier.
Following his graduation in medicine, he was appointed instructor in Clinical
Medicine and Microscopy at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota.
Later (1903) he became professor of Clinical Medicine and Microscopy, which
position he held until the reorganization of the Medical School in 1909, when he
was elected to the chair of Associate Professor of Medicine, which position he
held until his resignation after twenty years of medical teaching, at the time
of the controversy over the Mayo affiliation. Dr. Head has held a number of
important positions in the Alumni organizations at the University of Minnesota.
He was secretary of the faculty of the Medical School in the years 1904-1905,
under Dean Parks Ritchie; was president of the Medical Alumni Association during
the year when the campaign for a larger campus was inaugurated; in 1917 he
served as president of the Academic Alumni Association: he was president of the
State Medical Association in the year 1919; and was president of the Hennepin
County Medical Society during the year 1921. He is a member of many scientific
medical societies, has contributed to current medical literature and is
interested in scientific research.
In the year 1896 Dr. Head was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Belle Parry of
Minneapolis, a daughter of Mordecai Parry, one of Minneapolis' pioneer citizens.
Dr. and Mrs. Head have one son, Douglas Parry Head, a graduate of Yale, who is
now pursuing medical studies at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Head is an honorary member of the medical scholarship society, Alpha Omega
Alpha. He belongs to several college fraternities, including the Delta Tau
Delta. Nu Sigma Nu, and the scientific society of Sigma Xi. He was a chief of
medical service in the World war with the rank of major, and was stationed at
the Base Hospital in Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, and later at the Base
Hospital at Camp Devens, Ayer.