Collection ID: FIC2017.0011

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Woodford, Norman L., 1898-1985
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of Norman L. Woodford, who graduated from Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1921 and was a Health Officer and Coroner of Cayuga County. The collection has three series: Board of Health, Business, and Writings.
Extent:
3.75 linear feet
Language:
Collection materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

The Norman L. Woodford 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 Norman L. Woodford, who graduated from Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1921 and was a Health Officer and Coroner of Cayuga County. There are three series in this collection.

Board of Health: this documentation ranges from the 1910s to 1980s from the service of Emmett Grant Fish and Norman Woodford for the Board of Health and contains receipts, correspondence, examinations, referrals, reports, codes and regulations, registrations, inspections, forms, applications, publications, permits, newspaper clippings, notebooks, record books, and other items.

Business: these materials include receipts, checks, bills, and insurance information from the 1920s to 1950s.

Writings: this series has the notebooks of Norman Woodford from his studies at Syracuse University College of Medicine.

Biographical / Historical:

Norman Luther Woodford (1898-1985) was born in Marcellus and served in World War I before graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in 1919 and MD in 1921. His internship was at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse and, in 1922, he established a private practice at Union Springs and married Helen E. Welsh, with whom he had four daughters: Sarah Jean, Claire Marian, Norma Agnes, and Mary Elizabeth. After 1924, he was the Health Officer for several towns in Cayuga County, including Aurelius, Sennett, Fleming, Springport, and Union Springs. From 1944 to 1968, he served as the coroner for Cayuga County and was a member of the staffs of Mercy Hospital and Auburn City Hospital. Dr. Woodford was the Union Springs School doctor from 1930 to 1968 and was a member of the Union Springs Board of Education from 1931 to 1955. His memberships included the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, and the Cayuga County Medical Society, Past Vice President.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Norma Agnes Woodford Ziegler and Emilie McCardell, 1998.
Arrangement:

The Norman L. Woodford 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 Norman L. Woodford 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