George N. Hemmer MD Papers

George N. Hemmer (1886-1965) graduated from the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1909 and was a physician in Syracuse for 55 years. After completing his MD, Dr. Hemmer interned at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Germany Hospital in Brooklyn, and Misericordia Hospital in New York City. In 1912, he married Ethel May Place RN, who was from the class of 1911 at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd. They had two children: Ruth Hemmer Sarkus Costello (1915-2015) and Charles A. Hemmer MD (1917-1978). He was a member of the American Academy of General Practitioners, American Medical Society, New York State Medical Society, Onondaga County Medical Society, American Medical Association, and Syracuse Academy of Medicine. After Ethel died in 1920, he was married to Irene E. Boucher until his death on June 13, 1965.