Dr. William Henry Draper

Graduated from Columbia in 1851, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1855. Served on the staff of Bellevue Hospital and later at New York Hospital.

William Henry Draper, physician, 1830-1901, m. (1st), ca. 1862, Elizabeth Waldo Kinnicutt (d. 1870), daughter of Francis H. and Elizabeth (Moody) Kinnicutt. Their children were: 1. William Kinnicutt Draper, 1863-1926, m. Helen Fidelia Hoffman 2. Martha Lincoln Draper, d. 1943

He then married (2nd), in 1877, Ruth Dana, daughter of Charles Anderson Dana. Their children were: 1. Charles Dana, 2. George, ,(1880-) 3. Dorothea, married Henry James (nephew of the novelist), 4. Alice Olin, married Edward Carter, 1878-1954, 5. Ruth Draper, 1884-1956, 6. Paul

WILLIAM HENRY DRAPER, the third son and child of GEORGE and LUCY R. (BARNARD) DRAPER, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, October 14, 1830, and died in New York on April 26, 1901. He graduated at Columbia College in 1851. In 1855 he received his degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then served as interne in Bellevue Hospital, and afterwards studied abroad in Paris and London. He was appointed Attending Physician to the New York Hospital in 1862, and continued to hold this position until 1889, when he resigned on account of ill health. He was then appointed Consulting Physician, but in 1893 was again made Attending Physician to the Hospital and served in this position until 1896, when he again resigned and was made Consulting Physician for a second time. In 1869, he was appointed Professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was a Trustee of that institution until 1889, when it was merged with Columbia University, when he was elected a Trustee of Columbia, which position he held until his death. He was one of the founders of the Association of American Physicians and was President of this Society in 1888. DR. DRAPER was twice married; his first wife being ELIZABETH WALDO KINNICUTT, of Worcester, Mass., and his second wife, RUTH DANA, of New York.