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Dr Elba Rock Sleyster

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Dr Elba Rock Sleyster

Birth
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
7 Mar 1942 (aged 62)
Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA
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Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Rock Sleyster, 62, of Milwaukee, only Wisconsin man ever to head the American Medical Association, and former physician at Kiel, died at his home on the Milwaukee sanitarium ground at Wauwatosa early last Saturday. Dr. Sleyster was well known to medical men in this county and while at Kiel was secretary of the Calumet County Medical society.
He was an outspoken opponent to socialized medicine. He was named superintendent of the Milwaukee sanitarium in 1919. Dr. Sleyster was chosen president of the America Medical association in 1938.
Brillion News – March 13, 1942

Son of William/John "Williard" and Ada May (Butts) Sleyster. * Ada remarried to a Mr. Beal.
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Dr. Rock Sleyster, 62, of Milwaukee, only Wisconsin man ever to head the American Medical Association, and former physician at Kiel, died at his home on the Milwaukee sanitarium ground at Wauwatosa early last Saturday. Dr. Sleyster was well known to medical men in this county and while at Kiel was secretary of the Calumet County Medical society.
He was an outspoken opponent to socialized medicine. He was named superintendent of the Milwaukee sanitarium in 1919. Dr. Sleyster was chosen president of the America Medical association in 1938.
Brillion News – March 13, 1942

Son of William/John "Williard" and Ada May (Butts) Sleyster. * Ada remarried to a Mr. Beal.
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