City: Memphis
KRAUSS, William, physician; born near Kaisaslantern [sic], Germany, June 13, 1861; son of Wilhelm and Babette (Muller) KRAUSS; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents Jacob and Regina (Kempf) KRAUSS, maternal grandfather Frederick MULLER; received preliminary education in K-k. Studien Anstalt, Kaiserslauten [sic], Germany; Ph.G. University of Maryland, 1883, medicine at Memphis Hospital Medical College, 1886-1887, St. Louis Medical College, 1887-1888, degree M.D.; graduate work, University of Kiel and Wurzburg, Germany, 1889; instructor in Memphis Hospital Medical College (chemistry), histology, pathology and bacteriology), 1890-1903; private school in clinical laboratory for physicians, 1903-1906; professor of pathology and lecturer on tropical medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Memphis, Tenn., 1906-1909; visiting physician and pathologist St. Joseph’s Hospital, Memphis, 1890-1908; visiting pathologist Lucy Brinkley Hospital for Women, Memphis, 1906-1909; acting asistant [sic] surgeon U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital during the yellow fever epidemics; specialized in toxicology, pathology and tropical medicine since 1890; chairman of the committee on contagious diseases of the State Board of Health of Tennessee, 1898-1902; began his career as a druggists’s apprentice; married twice, first, Gayle DONNELL, 1892, second, Daisy TURNEY; member American Medican Southern Medical and National Tuberculosis Associations; National Geographical Society, Tri-State Medical Society, Shelby County Medical Society, Tennessee State Medical Society, American Society of Tropical Medicine; Democrat; former dean of the medical department University of Mississippi, Vicksburg, Miss.; at present he is pathologist to City Hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital and lecturer to nurses at Presbyterian Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., also professor of pathology College of Physicians and Surgeons, Memphis, Tenn.
