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William Caldwell Gorgas was Surgeon General & held rid Havana of yellow fever. www.encyclopedia.com/topic/William_Crawford_Gorgas.aspx#1...

Received honorary degree at Columbia on June 4, 1913, according to NYT the following day query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E0D81F3AE633A...

Can we usually see intelligence on people's face? Remember the movie Amadeus Mozart, the Antonio is in a party searching for a face looks like Morzat the most? Mozart do look different for his genius quality which is very rarely exist in human society. Mozart is an unusal special case. Most fine people can show the quality of their intensed training and intelligence by seeing their faces.

captainslack and swanq: Thanks for the info! This is indeed William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920), honorary degree recipient at Columbia University's June 4, 1913 commencement. When we update the record, we will expand on the caption to include this information.

William C. Gorgas was a U. S. Army General, and a military surgeon who introduced mosquito eradication to eliminate Yellow Fever in Havana during the Spanish Amerian War, and later in the Panama Canal Zone, during construction of the canal. history.amedd.army.mil/surgeongenerals/W_Gorgas.html Bain's and LOC's captions to the above photo are incorrect: Gorgas was not a Professor; he wore the academic rig when he received an honorary degree from Columbia. A Bain/LOC photo of Gorgas with Mrs. Gorgas: Another photo was posed to Flickr on November 12, 2010:

Nice picture

Annette Abbott Adams From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Abbott_Adams Annette Abbott Adams Annette Abbott Adams (12 March 1877 – 26 October 1956) was an American lawyer and judge. Born Annette Grace Abbot in Prattville, California, Adams was educated at the Chico State Normal School and the University of California, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in 1904, and her law degree in 1912. Before beginning her legal career, she taught grammar school and was one of the first female school principals in California, at Modoc County High School, in Alturas. In 1912, she was admitted to the State Bar of California.[1] She campaigned for Woodrow Wilson in California, and was rewarded after his election with an appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, 1914–1919. In 1918–1920 she was attorney in the same district. In 1920 she was appointed as the first female Assistant Attorney General of the United States, an office which she resigned in 1921. Adams ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1923. She had a successful private law practice until 1935, when she was appointed Assistant Special Counsel of U.S. Oil litigation. In 1942, California Governor Culbert Olson appointed her as Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal for the Third District in Sacramento. That court was, at the time, one of four intermediate appellate courts in California--intermediate, that is, between the trial courts located in every county, and the California Supreme Court. As the Presiding Justice for the Third District, Justice Adams was thus one of the four highest-ranking judges in the state after the Justices of the Supreme Court. She won election to a twelve-year term on the court of appeal later in 1942, but retired in 1952 for health reasons. In her time on the court, she wrote over 350 opinions. In 1950, she served by special assignment on one case in the California Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to sit on that court (Gardner v. Jonathon Club (1950) 35 Cal.2d 343) [2] Adams died at her home in Sacramento in 1956.

Interesting :)

Her official biography from the California courts website is as follows, and is a little different as to some details than the wikipedia account above: "Annette Abbott Adams (March 12, 1877 - October 26, 1956) Presiding Justice, May 1942 - November 1952 An extraordinary woman and true trailblazer, Annette Abbott Adams was one of the first women school principals in California, one of the first two women to receive a law degree from the University of California, one of the first women to be admitted to the California Bar, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney, the first woman appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General, and the first woman to serve as an appellate court justice in California. She was born March 12, 1877, in Prattville, Plumas County, and attended Chico State Normal School, University of California, Berkeley (BL, 1904), and Boalt Hall (JD, 1912). Adams taught grammar school and was principal of Modoc County High School, Alturas, prior to her career in law. Admitted to the California Bar in 1912, she practiced law in Quincy, and then in San Francisco, before becoming Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1914-18, and U.S. Attorney, 1918-20. After serving as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1920-21, she returned to San Francisco and practiced law there until 1935, when she was appointed Assistant Special Counsel of U.S. oil litigation. In March 1942, she became California's first female appellate justice when Governor Olson appointed her Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. Justice Adams retired December 1952; she died at her Sacramento home four years later, October 26, 1956." www.courts.ca.gov/2673.htm

artolog: Thanks for the information from the California courts website, which seems like a reliable source for the details on Adams. We will expand the information about her in this record.

Lovely portrait! If - like me - you don't know who she was, Wikipedia has a nice, if short, article.

a/k/a "Betty Crocker" (who knew!)

Isn't it great? We can claim fame for Betty Crocker and the maraschino cherry! To read more about Mercedes Bates, you can also check out our March 12, 2007 blog post.

Now on Wikimedia Commons

Fun find: Portraits of Betty Crocker