Collection ID: 2005.0002

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Lanning, Charles W.
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of Charles W. Lanning, who graduated from the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1898. The collection has three series: Photographs, Printed Materials, and Memorabilia.
Extent:
.21 linear feet
Language:
Collection materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

The Charles W. Lanning MD Papers, Archives and Special Collections in the Health Sciences Library, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection contains the papers of Charles W. Lanning, who graduated from the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1898. There are three series in this collection.

Photographs: these materials include photographs of Charles W. Lanning with his family and at the Starkey Seminary and Syracuse University.

Printed Materials: these documents consist of brief informational sources on Charles W. Lanning.

Memorabilia: this series contains certificates presented to Charles W. Lanning and his diploma from the Syracuse University College of Medicine.

Biographical / Historical:

Charles Wesley Lanning (1874-1956) was born on March 7, 1874 in Enfield and attended Ithaca High School and Starkey Seminary. After teaching for three years, he went to the Syracuse University College of Medicine and graduated in 1898. Initially, he worked as a general practitioner, and his first office was in Tully. He married three times with his daughters Phyllis and Sylvia being born during his first marriage. Florence Marie Hill Lanning was his second wife and a school teacher in the Cooperstown area who died in 1933. During their marriage, they had a daughter, Elizabeth Jean Lanning Wilson, and a son, Charles Wesley Lanning Jr. He married his third wife, Zana Pollock, in 1935, who was a dietician at Bassett Hospital.

He served as the school commissioner for Onondaga County from 1904 to 1910 and practiced in Otisco and Manlius prior to moving to Cooperstown in 1911 or 1912. While in Cooperstown, he served as the Otsego County physician for nine years and was president of the Otsego County Medical Society for one year. He continued to be a general practitioner until 1926, when he completed special courses at the New York Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Infirmary to be a specialist. From 1927 to 1936, he was the first head of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat department of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown. Prior to working at the Bassett Hospital, he was on staff at the old Thanksgiving Hospital situated in what is now the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. In 1936, he moved to Herkimer to be an Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat physician specialist and was a member of Medical Society of the County of Herkimer for 20 years. After practicing medicine for 55 years, he retired in 1953 and died on April 18, 1956.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Grey Wilson, 2005.
Arrangement:

The Charles W. Lanning MD papers have been arranged into three series.

Online content

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

There are no access restrictions on this material.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Written permission must be obtained from the Archives and Special Collections of the SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

The Charles W. Lanning MD Papers, Archives and Special Collections in the Health Sciences Library, SUNY Upstate Medical University

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
766 Irving Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210, United States
CONTACT:
history@upstate.edu