Desmond to enter Navy Dental Corps.” Davenport Democrat and Leader, July 9, 1917 “Desmond opens dental office.” Davenport Democrat and Leader, July 11, 1915.“Personals.” Davenport Democrat and Leader, June 23, 1914.“Appointed to Washington office.” Davenport Democrat and Leader, June 7, 1911.Comegys, 69, succumbs to pneumonia.” The Rock Island Argus, January 21, 1935 “Physician may go to New York City.” The Rock Island Argus, October 6, 1919.Comegys is made a captain.” The Rock Island Arsenal, June 14, 1918 field force being vaccinated.” The Moline Dispatch, March 1, 1915 Comegys.” The Rock Island Argus, July 31, 1897 His obituary was published in the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram on March 20, 1971. Desmond died March 19, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. He retired with the rank of Commander on February 6, 1947.Ĭommander Leonard M. Naval Hospitals in San Diego and Long Beach, and at the U.S. Desmond returned to the Navy for WWII, reenlisting on December 23, 1941. Destroyer Base in San Diego, retiring on December 27, 1927.ĭr. He served aboard submarines and on hospital ships U.S.S. Desmond was commissioned Lieutenant in U.S.
1 American Legion from November 1919 to July 1920.įollowing his service in the American Red Cross, Dr. He then joined the American Red Cross and was a member of Paris Post No. Desmond was honorably discharged from the Army Reserves on September 6, 1919. in France, stationed at Base Hospital No. He entered the Dental Corps and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, U.S. 1, providing dental care to the men selected for service. Desmond was appointed dentist of Davenport Draft Board no. He came back to Davenport and opened a dental practice in the Davenport Savings Bank Building in July 1915.ĭr.
He studied dentistry at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and graduated in 1914. He served as an assistant forecaster in the Weather Bureau Davenport Office in 1907 transferred to Evansville in 1909 and to Washington D.C. Leonard was a newspaper carrier for The Daily Times in 1905. Desmond was born November 30, 1890, in Moscow, Muscatine County, Iowa to Christopher and Anna (Miller) Desmond. His obituary was published in the Rock Island Argus on January 21, 1935. Comegys died January 20, 1935, at his home 325 57th Street in New York City. He served as stevedore surgeon for the Cunard steamship line in New York and as head of all medical work of the White Star steamship line, retiring from medical practice in 1929. He served as transport surgeon aboard the steamship Aquitania and at the debarkation hospitals in New York City.Ĭaptain Comegys moved to New York City after his discharge in 1919. Captain Comegys was assigned to the base hospital at Hoboken, New Jersey on August 17, 1918. He attained the rank of Captain in the medical corps in June 1918. During his time at the Arsenal, he was in charge of administering the Typhoid Fever vaccine to all U.S. Comegys served as post surgeon at Rock Island Arsenal from 1913-1918, when he enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army.
He was elected president of the medical staff at St. He was appointed assistant surgeon for the Tri-City Railway Company in 1899 and was the surgeon for the Burlington Railroad in 1905. During this time he made radical changes to improve garbage collection in the City. Comegys served as Rock Island Health Commissioner from 1897-1899. Joseph married Miss Elise Thompson of St. He moved with his parents to Rock Island in 1892 when his father transferred for his job with the Army Corps of Engineers. graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, Illinois in 1885 and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1891. He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His maternal grandfather, Captain John Good, was one of the founders of the Moline Plow Company. Joseph Parsons Comegys was born November 21, 1866, in Covington, Kentucky to Cornelius Parsons and Sarah Jane (Good) Comegys. In honor of Veterans Day this year we are featuring 2 medical officers photographed by J.B.
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