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                    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
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graphs and textbooks on surgery    
of the colon and rectum. He will _,r·    
go to England in May, 1954, to ad- ‘—  S—rr ; »,r=‘`, 2  
dress the Associations of Surgeons   ·‘,.»= ;;,_;; 1·S_  “  
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A resident of Lexington for the `iléi 21%;; ¤‘‘   - :S,l  
past 20 years, Dr. Rankin is a vet- ,—’. as ··i·r xii -i:i    * =·‘   Sl.ii  
eran of both world wars. During DR_ FRED W_ RANKIN
4 World War I he served 17 months
with the Army Medical Corps as a chief consulting surgeon to the
major attached to the First A. C., Armies of the United States until
Fourth and 26th Divisions in the end of the war, when he re-
France. He was commanding of- tired with the rank of brigadierl
ficer of a base hospital with the general.
rank of major and at the end of Dr. Rankin holds the following
the war he became a colonel in the military citations: World War I,
Medical Reserve Corps of the Victory ribbon; World War II, Dis-
Army. ` tinguished Service medal, Victoryt
During World War II, he was ribbon, ETO ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific
called to active duty in the Sur- ribbon, American Theater ribbon,
geon General’s office with the rank Cross of Chevalier of the Legion,
of brigadier general. He served as of Honor. E