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1900 Living Foote Ave Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY, Age 5 months Old. 591

1920 living on Foote Ave, Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY, age 20. 605

1930 Living Arlington Ave Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY, age 32. 606

1940 Living Arlington Ave Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY, age 40. 607

From the Jamestown Post Journal, Jan 9, 1971

Dr. H. Wolcott Ingham

A familiar figure for more than four decades at both Jamestown General and WCA Hospitals will be missed from the medical scene in the retirement of one of the community's most prominent surgeons.

Dr. H. Wolcott Ingham, who had practiced here since the end of 1926 with exception of four years as commander in the U.S. Navy in World War II, retired on New Year's Day on his 71st birthday.

Dr. and Mrs. Ingham will continue to make their home at Chedwel on the Lake where he has been a summer resident for 27 years, longest of any at this attractive summer and winter colony. They will winter in their apartment at Delray Beach, Fla.

In commenting on his retirement Dr. Ingham expressed mixed emotions, admitting that the decision is not an easy one to make in the medical profession. "I know I shall miss the work, my contacts with the two hospitals here, my colleagues in the profession but most of all the satisfaction of seeing thousands of people recover from serious illnesses."

Dr. Ingham added that he will be grateful always to all his friends and patients for their loyalty and friendship during the many years of his practice. He also remarked that it has been an exhilarating time to be a surgeon throughout a period of rapid advances in medical science and of many changes in the treatment of the ill.

Dr. Ingham numbers in the thousands the major operations he has performed, of which goiter operations alone are more than 700. When he began his practice the city claimed, among others, such outstanding surgeons as Dr. George W. Cottis, Dr. Frederick H. Nichols. Dr. Charles E. Goodell, Dr. Milton J. Johnson and Dr. Harold A Blaisdell.

Elected to several important medical posts during these lour decades, Dr, Ingham was the first surgeon in this part of New York State to be accepted as a Fellow in the International College of Surgeons.

Fellowship in the College, which has its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon a surgeon. He received his diploma and degree of the FICS in Detroit, Mich., in October 1946 when he was named a Diplomat of the International Board of Surgery.

Ten years prior to this honor, Dr. Ingham received his Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, and was a delegate from New York State to the American Medical Association annual meeting in 1939.

His first state office was in 1935 when he was elected vice president of the Eighth District of the New York State Medical Society. He was named the district president in 1936 and the same year was also named to the State Council and Board of Censors, serving two terms in each office. He has also been president of the Chautauqua County Medical Society.

Reminiscing over the eight years he served in various state offices which required attendance at meetings in New York City once or twice a month, Dr. Ingham said he made the trips on the night train of the Erie RR, pored over some medical hooks for a couple of hours before going to sleep, attended the meeting and returned on the night Erie train from Jersey City in time to report at the hospitals to keep appointments for surgery.

In World War 11 Dr. Ingham served for four years as commander in the U.S. Navy. mostly with Admiral Halsey's Fleet in the South Pacific.

Entering service in April 1942 as surgeon in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Dr. Ingham later founded the medical department at the first WAVES School when he was chief medical officer for the Naval Training School at Bloomington, Ind. He also dictated all medical directives for WAVES and set up the V-12 program for training doctors and dentists at the University of Indiana.

Subsequently he served aboard a transport in the Pacific which took New Caledonia and the New Hebrides Islands in charge of officer surgery.

Born in Jamestown, Dr. Ingham even as a small boy had made up his mind that he would be a surgeon. After graduation from Jamestown High School, he entered Syracuse University and was graduated from its School of Medicine. He interned at the University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich., and also at Buffalo General Hospital, on the teaching staff for the University of Buffalo.

Dr. Ingham grew up in Jamestown at 348 Foote Ave., on property that had been in his mother's family for 75 years. His father, James Ingham, who came to Jamestown from Manchester, England, in 1883, was for 31 years superintendent and manager of the Chautauqua Worsted Mills after working at both the Broadhead and Empire Mills. Both Mr. Ingham and his wife, Mary Wheeler Ingham died on Palm Sunday, Mr. Ingham in 1946 and Mrs. Ingham in 1955. They are remembered by many for their devotion to St. Luke's Episcopal Church where Mr. Ingham was vestryman, and choir member. He also sang in the Masonic Glee Club.

Dr. and Mrs. Ingham are also active in many capacities in St. Luke's Church. He also values highly his membership on the board of the Jamestown School of Practical Nursing.

The surgeon has three sons, John, draftsman at the AMCO Co.; Waid, a personnel director in Cleveland, Ohio, just returned from Europe; and Grant at Red Branch, N.J., in the business of office equipment, partitions and acoustic materials. There are also five grandchildren.

Dr. Ingham is the third physician here to retire within a few months, but unlike Dr. C. H. Culver and Dr. A. C. Babath who moved from the area, Dr. Ingham will continue to be a resident here much to the pleasure of his countless friends and those who have felt it a privilege to claim him as "their family surgeon" and have found him not only a brilliant doctor but an understanding friend. 588

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