Isadore Dyer
{{Short description|American physician}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|11|02}}
| birth_place = Galveston, Texas, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|10|12|1865|11|02}}
| death_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, US
| burial_place = Metairie Cemetery
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| occupation = Physician
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Mercedes Louise Percival|July 31, 1905}}
| children = 6
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| alma_mater = Tulane University
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Isadore Dyer (November 2, 1865 – October 12, 1920) was an American physician.
Early life
Isadore Dyer was born in Galveston, Texas on November 2, 1865, the son of Isadore Dyer Sr. (1814–1888) and his wife, Amelia Ann (née Lewis).{{cite journal| title = Isadore Dyer, Ph.B. 1887 | year = 1921| journal = Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1921| number = 22| pages = 219–221| url = http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1920-21.pdf| access-date = 2025-05-25| archive-date = February 8, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120208141621/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1920-21.pdf| url-status = dead}}{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesandt04cham/page/71/mode/1up |title=Universities and Their Sons |volume=IV |editor-first=Joshua L. |editor-last=Chamberlain |publisher=R. Herndon Company |place=Boston |pages=71–72 |date=1900 |access-date=2025-05-25 |via=Internet Archive}} Isadore Sr. had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1815; he served in the Mexican-American War and became a banker in Galveston.
Education and career
He attended a private school in Galveston, the New York Grammar School, and the Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Virginia. He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1887, studied at the University of Virginia from 1887 to 1888, and received his M. D. at Tulane in 1889. After an internship of three years in New York, he served at Tulane in various capacities, becoming professor of diseases of the skin in 1905 and dean of the medical department in 1908. In 1894 he founded the Louisiana Leper Home, and in 1896 Dr. Dyer became editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. He was president of the Louisiana State Medical Society (1902–03), vice president of the American Medical Association (1903), vice-president of the New York Medico-Legal-Society (1908–10), and a lieutenant in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps (1908). Dr. Dyer was the author of articles in various medical text and reference books. He was a member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09362126&seq=312 |title=History of the Boston Club, Organized in 1841 |first=Stuart O. |last=Landry |publisher=Pelican Publishing |place=New Orleans |page=290 |date=1938 |access-date=2025-05-25 |via=HathiTrust}}
Family
Death
He died in New Orleans of angina pectoris on October 12, 1920, and was interred in Metairie Cemetery.
Sources
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- [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fdy03 The Handbook of Texas Online]
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