Katana VentraIP

Lewis Atterbury Stimson

Lewis Atterbury Stimson (August 24, 1844 – September 17, 1917 ) was an American surgeon who was the first to perform a public operation in the United States using Joseph Lister's antiseptic technique.[1]

Lewis Atterbury Stimson

(1844-08-24)August 24, 1844

September 17, 1917(1917-09-17) (aged 73)

Candace Thurber Wheeler
​
​
(m. 1866; died 1876)​

Henry Lewis Stimson
Candace C. Stimson

Henry Clark Stimson
Julia Maria Atterbury

Candace Wheeler (mother-in-law)
Dr. Henry Loomis (brother-in-law)
Alfred Lee Loomis (nephew)

(1867–1950),[18] Secretary of State in Herbert Hoover's Administration as well as Secretary of War in the William Howard Taft Administration and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration.[19][20]

Henry Lewis Stimson

Candace C. Stimson (1869–1944), who helped administer the anti-tetanus serum around Europe during World War I with her father.[22]

[21]

In 1866, Stimson was married to Candace Thurber Wheeler (1845–1876), the daughter of Thomas Mason Wheeler (1818-1895) and Candace Thurber Wheeler (1827–1923). They had met in Trenton, New Jersey. Wheeler was described as a "beautiful creature, endowed with all the graces and accomplishments — a rare musician and vocalist, and of a nature as lovely as her person."[6] His biographer wrote that "his devotion to her began with their first meeting, and lasted as long as his life. It was the mainspring of much of the tenderness and compassion that marked his relation to humanity."[6] Lewis and Candace were the parents of:[6]


In a memorial written for Stimson after his death, Edward Lawrence Keyes (1843–1924) wrote about Stimson and his wife:[6]


Stimson died on September 17, 1917, at Shinnecock Hills, New York.[2][23]

Guide to the Lewis Atterbury Stimson, MD Papers at Weill Cornell Medical College

by Edward Lawrence Keyes, 1918

Lewis Atterbury Stimson