Arthur H. Hawkins was born on December 27, 1868 in LaPlata in Charles County. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Baltimore in 1895. He was a resident physician at Bayview Hospital from 1895 to 1896, and a resident physician at the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Spring Grove from 1896 to 1897.
Before his move
to Cumberland, Dr. Hawkins spent several months in post-graduate study at Johns
Hopkins, the University of Maryland, and the Physicians & Surgeons Hospital
in Baltimore. His interests were in surgery and pathology.
In Cumberland,
he became the Chief Surgeon at the old Western Maryland Hospital, and later at
Memorial Hospital. He was consultant surgeon at Allegany Hospital in
Cumberland, Miners’ Hospital in Frostburg, the Hazel McGilvey Hospital in
Meyersdale and the Bedford County Hospital.
Continuing his
education, between 1907 and 1913, Dr. Hawkins studied in Chicago under Dr. John
B. Murphy, at the Mayo Clinic, the Grile Clinic and in Berlin. He also
performed special work in surgery in Berlin, London and Edinburgh, as well as
in many American cities. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
During the two
World Wars, Dr. Hawkins served as Chairman and Surgeon of the Selective Service
Medical Advisory Board, and as the chair of the Army Examining Board.
Dr. Hawkins was
the past president of the Allegany-Garrett County Medical Society, President of
the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty and of the Cumberland Rotary Club.
Dr. Hawkins was considered
the “Dean of Western Maryland Surgeons” and continued to practice medicine
until shortly before his death on June 9, 1952 in Cumberland.
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