Elizabeth M. Porter [196-242]

[196-242] ELIZABETH M. PORTER, b Apr. 6, 1847; dau Hon. William A. and Emma (Wagener) Porter [196-108]; m Sept. 18, 1881, DR. DeFOREST WILLARD, SR., b Mar. 23, 1846; d Oct. 14, 1910; s Daniel H. and S. Maria (Deeming) Willard. Physician and surgeon; widow resides in Lansdowne, Pa. (1920.)

One child:

DeForest Porter, Jr., b Feb. 20, 1884; orthopaedic surgeon in Phila.; res., Lansdowne, Pa. Dr. Willard was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905, and from the Medical Department in 1908. During the World War he was a member of the British Medical Reserve Corps, London (1917), and joined the Medical Reserve Corps of the A. E. F.in 1918. Dr. Willard holds the office of physician in the Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles.

Dr. DeForest Willard, Sr., was born in Newington, Conn. After finishing his high school education in Hartford, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and from this institution received the degrees of M. D. and Ph. D. in the years 1867 and 1871, respectively. In 1889 Dr. Willard was appointed Professor of orthopaedic surgery by his Alma Mater, and he oceupied this chair until his death in 1910. At various times he served as president of medical organizations: in 1890, of the American Orthopaedic Association; in 1892, of the Phila. County Medical Society; in 1902, of the American Surgical Association, and also of the Phila. Academy of Surgery, ete. Numerous articles were contributed by Dr.

Willard to medical journals, and he was also the author of “Artificial Anesthesia’ (1891); “Surgery of Childhood, Including Orthopaedie Surgery”’ (1909). As a surgeon he was on the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital in Phila.