Moses T. Clegg

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| name = Moses T. Clegg

| birth_name = Moses Tran Clegg

| birth_date = {{birth date |1876|9|1}}

| birth_place = Red Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|8|9|1876|9|1}}

| death_place = Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

| fields = Bacteriology

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

Philippine Bureau of Science
Queen's Hospital, Honolulu

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| alma_mater = University of Arkansas

| spouse = {{marriage|Edna Wisner|July 26, 1911}}

| children = 3

| module = {{Infobox military person

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| embed_title = Military service

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| serviceyears = {{Plainlist|

1898
1899–1902

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| branch_label = Branch

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| unit = {{Plainlist|

Company A, 1st Arkansas Infantry
Hospital Corps

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Moses Tran Clegg (September 1, 1876 – August 9, 1918) was an American bacteriologist noted for his work in Leprosy. He is best known as the first scientist to segregate and propagate the leprosy bacillus.{{cite news|author=|title=Moses Tran Clegg|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20527534|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 5, 1918|page=11|access-date=February 13, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}

Early life

Clegg was born on September 1, 1876, at Red Bluff, Arkansas, and educated at the University of Arkansas. After a period of service in Company A, 1st Arkansas Infantry during the Spanish–American War, he enlisted in the Hospital Corps, serving through the Philippine Insurrection.{{cite book|author=|date=1900|title=Report of the Adjutant General of the Arkansas State Guard, 1897–1900, Including the Period of the Spanish–American War, by Brig. Gen. Arthur Neill, Acting Adjutant General|url=https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutant00arkarich|location=Little Rock|publisher=Thompson Lithograph and Printing Co.|page=[https://archive.org/details/reportofadjutant00arkarich/page/18 18]|lccn=41040306|oclc=6614916|via=Internet Archive}}

Career

Clegg was assistant bacteriologist in the Philippine Bureau of Science at Manila from 1902 to 1910, assistant director of the Leprosy Investigation Station in Hawaii from 1910 to 1915, and bacteriologist at San Francisco from 1916 to 1917. At the time of his death, he was superintendent of Queen's Hospital, Honolulu.

==See also==

Moses T. Clegg

Early life

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