George O.
Sharrett was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 19, 1887, a son of George W.
and Ina F. Sharrett. Sharrett first attended public schools and later Baltimore
City College. In 1908, he was graduated from the Baltimore Medical College, and
then took a two years course in the Baltimore Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital as assistant surgeon. Having qualified for this work, Dr. Sharrett relocated
to Cumberland and built up a large and valuable practice.
During WWI, Dr.
Sharrett enlisted in the medical corps and was commissioned as a Captain. He
was assigned to Camp Sheridan in Alabama for a year. He was reassigned to
Columbia University in NY to take a special course in brain surgery, just as
the Spanish Flu epidemic was hitting. He was moved to Fort Ontario for the
duration, and when it had subsided, he returned to Columbia to finish his
course.
After the war
was over, Dr. Sharrett returned to Cumberland and his practice. He became a
member of the Allegany County Medical Society, the Cumberland Academy of
Medicine and the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, as well as the
AMA. In 1932, Dr. Sharrett was elected as President of the Faculty. He was also
active in the Tri-State Physicians’ Club, the most active medical society in
Western Maryland at the time.
Dr. Sharrett was
the oculist and aurist for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Western
Maryland Railroad, and was a member of the surgical staff at the Allegany
Hospital, and the Western Maryland Hospital in Cumberland.
Dr. Sharrett died of a
heart attack in Cumberland on August 27, 1936 while dining with his wife and
child in a restaurant.
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