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Dr. Edward Watts Saunders
Dr. Edward Watts Saunders, who for forty-three years has engaged in the
practice of medicine in St. Louis and who is now professor emeritus of
pediatrics and clinical obstetrics in the medical department of Washington
University, was born in Campbell county, Virginia, on the 15th of October,
1854, a son of Robert C. and Caryetta (Davis) Saunders. His father was a
Civil war veteran, serving as captain of Company A of the Eleventh
Virginia Infantry of the Confederate army and winning promotion to the
rank of major. In the maternal line was Captain Eugene Davis under General
J.E.B. Stuart. He raised a company of Calvary for service with the
Confederate forces, was captured and imprisoned at Elmira, New York. An
uncle, Richard T. Davis, was also a chaplain in the army. The ancestry of
the Saunders family in America dates back to the middle of the seventeenth
century, when settlement was made at Jamestown by one of the name. On the
mother's side the ancestral line is traced back only through three
generations. The grandfather Davis was rector of the University of
Virginia and met a tragic death, being assassinated by a drunken student
in 1840.
The early education of Dr. Saunders was obtained in private schools and
the academic department of the University of Virginia. In preparation for
his professional career he attended the medical department of the same
university, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1875. He
afterward took post-graduate work in the Royal University of Vienna, and
in 1878 he came to St. Louis, where he opened an office, and through the
intervening period has continuously engaged in practice. He has largely
specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics and has gained wide recognition
for his skill along those lines.
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For an extended period he
was one of the instructors in the medical department of Washington
University, which has now made him professor emeritus of pediatrics
and clinical obstetrics. He is serving on the medical staff of the
Bethesda Hospital, and also of the Missouri Baptist the American
Pediatric Society, the American Medical Association, the St. Louis
Medical Society and the St. Louis Pediatric Society. He is also a
member of the American Immunologic Society and fellow of American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Saunders is a Presbyterian in his religious faith, and is a
member of the University Club. During the World war Dr. Saunders
made application for service and was placed on the Volunteer Medical
Corps, doing duty in connection with secret service work for the
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He has a very wide acquaintance in St. Louis, where he has so long made
his home, and throughout the entire period he has enjoyed the fullest
respect and confidence not only of the general public but of his
colleagues and contemporaries because of his close conformity to the
highest standards and ethics of the profession.
Source: "Centennial History of Missouri (The Center
State) One Hundred Years In The Union 1820-1921" Vol 2 By Walter B.
Stevens St. Louis-Chicago The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1921.
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