Roswell Park

Roswell Park (May 4, 1852 – February 15, 1914) was an American physician and cancer researcher, best known for starting Gratwick Research Laboratory in 1898, which is now known as Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

[1][2] His grandmother, Mary Carter Coolidge, was later married to manufacturer Burrage Yale after Col. Baldwin's death.

He came from Chicago where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University in 1876.

By 1914, the total number of textbooks, articles, and monographs that he wrote reached 167.

That September, President William McKinley, not even a year into his second term, was giving a speech at the Temple of Music on the Exposition grounds when Leon Czolgosz came from the crowd and shot him twice at point-blank range.

Herman Mynter, a general surgeon from Buffalo, was the first to diagnose the president.

Not long after Mynter's examination was finished, Matthew Derbyshire Mann arrived.

[9] Efforts were made to contact Park, but he was in the middle of a neck dissection at Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital.

Park told Mann that he was the best man to make that decision given the scenario.