- 1871 – 1955
- Anatomy instructor after med school
- 1897: England to study head & neck
- 1902: Associate professor at WashU
- 1912: Published “Surgeries and Diseases of the Mouth and Jaws” (1st of a kind in US)
- WWI: Led treatment of craniofacial recon & learned from Gillies
- Introduced the delay technique in flap surgery
- 1931: First described cleft nose deformity
- 1937 AAPS meeting à presented ABPS
- Independent specialty board 1941
- 1st division chief of PLS at WashU (1925 – 1955)