Bunts Family Papers
Frank E. Bunts
The extensive Bunts Family Papers were given to the Cleveland Medical Library Association in 1975 by Mrs. Alexander T. Bunts. This collection documents this family's involvement in the Cleveland medical community and their important accomplishments. Frank E. Bunts graduated from the US. Navel Academy at Annapolis in 1881 and later served in the Spanish American War. He graduated from Western Reserve University Medical School in 1886. A decade later he became professor of principles of surgery at WRU. He became the first president of the Academy of Medicine in Cleveland (1902) and was one of four co-founders of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1921).
Alexander Bunts
Frank E. Bunts married Harriet Taylor (1888) and they had two children Alexander Taylor Bunts and Clara Louise Bunts. Alexander T. Bunts graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1924 and went on to specialize in neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He retired in 1967 at the age of 70.
This collection is housed in 20 boxes and contains family bibles, both personal and professional correspondence, military service records, material including correspondence with 1954 Nobel Prize winner John F. Enders.
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