John Shaw Billings
Surgeon
1838 – 1913
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Who was John Shaw Billings?
John Shaw Billings was an American librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.
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- Born
- Apr 12, 1838
Cotton Township - Also known as
- Dr. John Shaw Billings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Miami University
- Lived in
- Indiana
- New York City
- Died
- Mar 11, 1913
New York City - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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