Alanson Weeks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alanson Weeks

American football player

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1877

Place of Birth: Allegan, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 25-Nov-1947

Profession: surgeon, military physician, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alanson Weeks

  • Alanson Weeks (September 15, 1877 – November 25, 1947) was an American football player and medical doctor.
  • Weeks was born in Allegan, Michigan, in 1877.
  • He was the son of Julia Shoemaker and Capt.
  • Harrison Weeks.
  • He enrolled at the University of Michigan and played college football as a fullback for the undefeated 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team that were declared "Champions of the West." His younger brother, Boss Weeks, was the captain for Fielding H.
  • Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams at Michigan. Weeks graduated from the University of Michigan in 1899 with a medical degree.
  • He moved to San Francisco, California, where he became a surgeon.
  • He was in that city at the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
  • From 1912 until 1919 (except for the time in military service), he was the chief surgeon of San Francisco's emergency hospital service.
  • For many years, he also served as a professor of surgery at the University of California Medical School.
  • He was also "credited with developing many surgical procedures" which became common practice.Weeks served as a Major in the U.S.
  • Army Medical Corps during World War I.
  • He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious and distinguished service for his work as a surgeon and director of surgical teams at the front during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.Weeks later served as the chief surgeon at St.
  • Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, holding that position until his retirement in 1946.In 1947, Weeks died of a heart attack at the Pacific Union Club in San Francisco.
  • He had been living at the Club since his wife died in 1943.

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