xt7xks6j2258_462 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xks6j2258/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl.dao.xml Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
                    1886- Cubit feet ? 7 boxes This collection comprises six scrapbooks (plus one box of miscellaneous items) of letters, newsclippings, and photographs documenting major milestones in the career of Lexinngton, Kentucky surgeon Fred W. Rankin, M.D. archival material English unknown This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed.  Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.  Physical rights are retained by the owning repository.  Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.  For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Fred W. Rankin, M.D. Scrapbooks Correspondence –– Rankin, Fred W. (Fred Wharton),
                1886- American Medical Association Military Medicine –– History –– United
                States American Surgical Association American College of Surgeons Letter from Don Wharton, New York, New York, to Fred W.                                 Rankin, M.D., congratulating him on his election as President of the                                 American College of Surgeons (ACS) text Letter from Don Wharton, New York, New York, to Fred W.                                 Rankin, M.D., congratulating him on his election as President of the                                 American College of Surgeons (ACS) 2012 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xks6j2258/data/rankin4kdl_6/rankin4kdl_6_14a/i6-14a/i6-14a.pdf October 10, 1953 1953 October 10, 1953 section false xt7xks6j2258_462 xt7xks6j2258 24 GRAMEROY PARK
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    _ occeber 10,1953
gg Dear Dr. Rankin:
s I should like to be among the many who
.;» are congratulating you on your election to-the
iw, presidency of the American College of ¤urgeons.
. Doubtless you have forgotten, but I
, ‘ remember very well the day during the war when
1 I was taken into your office in Washington and
» you immediately asked "Qre you in the book?" Re-
9% ferring, of course, to the Wharton-Rankin book
,fwritten by mu uncle, ¤am hankin. His widow ?Mary
? Wharton Rankin, my father s sister, is sti§l;g%_
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eg I have just looked it up in "the book§§
§hd found that ourmutual ancestor was Watson Wharton.
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this leE §r---I know that you are probably swamped
by a flo ,,g_ of messages of eongratulations.
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