In a letter dated December 17, 1976 Thomas Higdon, AHSL Acting Librarian, writes to Hugh Hollingsworth Smith MD: “…I did not find the charcoal portrait of Osler that you described, but I did find your letter (copy enclosed) to Ms. Miller that accompanied your photo of Dr. Wm. S. McCann…”
McCann, William S. Calorimetry in medicine, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1924.
JAMA. 1971;217(3):278: Dr. William McCann, nationally known teacher, dies in Rochester, NY. William Sharp McCann, MD, first chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, died June 10 in the university's Strong Memorial Hospital. Death was attributed to cardiopulmonary arrest due to metastatic carcinoma of the colon. Dr. McCann would have been 82 on July 6. He served as department chairman, Dewey Professor of Medicine and physician-in-chief of Strong Memorial Hospital from 1924 until his retirement in 1957. He was also consulting physician to Highland, Genessee, and Rochester state hospitals. Dr. McCann was known nationally as a teacher of physicians, and he raised many millions of dollars for research and education at the university. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, he received his bachelor of arts degree from Ohio State University in 1911 and his MD degree from Cornell Medical College in 1915. Dr. McCann's teaching career began in 1916 after his internship in surgery at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was named Arthur Tracey Cabot Fellow in Charge of Laboratory for Surgical Research at Harvard Medical School, where he served until entering the Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant in World War I. He taught at the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology of Cornell Medical College and at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining the new faculty at Rochester in 1924. During World War II, he served as chief of medicine at Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Hospital and later became a member of the first advisory committee to the Office of Naval Research and consultant to the Veterans Administration. Upon his retirement, Dr. McCann became Dewey Professor Emeritus at Rochester and Visiting Professor of Administrative Medicine at Cornell. In 1957 he received the Albert David Kaiser Medal of the Rochester Academy of Medicine. Two years later, he received the Gold Medal of the University of Rochester Medical Alumni Association. He was a Regent and Master of the American College of Physicians, and had served as chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine, president of the Association of American Physicians, vice-president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was chairman of the American Medical Association's Section on the Practice of Medicine in 1940. Dr. McCann wrote five books and published some 90 articles. His research interests were far ranging--from sillicosis to heart and lung diseases, cancer, diabetes, and health problems of business executives. Survivors include his wife, Ella Russ McCann: a daughter, Elizabeth McCann Adams, MD, of Kailua, Hawaii; a son, William Peter McCann, MD, of Mountain Brook, Ala, and four grandchildren.
JAMA. 1971;217(4):489: McCann, William Sharp, Rochester, NY; Cornell, 1915; on the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; died in the Strong Memorial Hospital June 10, aged 81, of cardiopulmonary arrest due to metastatic carcinoma of the colon. (See Medical News, JAMA 216 [July 19] p. 278).
Another obituary (via Ancestry.com):
The ashes of DR. WILLIAM SHARP MCCANN, one of the nation's better known physicians, will be interred in Cadiz Union Cemetery on July 13 at 2:00 with the Rev. Lewis Thomas officating. DR. MCCANN, 81, of Rochester, N.Y. died in the Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester on June 10. He was born in Cadiz, Oh on July 6, 1889, a son of a prominent Cadiz Family. After graduating from Cadiz High School in 1907, he attended Ohio State University from which he received a B.A. Degree in 1911. His Medical degree was from Cornell University Medical College in 1915. Honorary degrees were from Ohio State, Hobart & William Smith College. DR. MCCANN was the first chairman of the University of Rochester Medical School & was widely known as a teacher of physicians. He was a former president of the Association of American Physicians, a master of the American College of Physicians & chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He was an early researcher in silicosis, & also did research in the relation of heart & lung disease, & in cancer, diabetes, kidney disease & health problems of business executives. DR. MCCANN taught medicine at Cornell, John Hopkins & at the time of his death was Dewey Professor Medicine, Emeritus, at the University of Rochester. He served as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in World War 1 & as a captain in the Navy Medical Corps in World War 2. Surviving are his widow, Ella: a son, Dr. William Peter McCann, an associate professor in Birmingham, Ala.; a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth McCann Adams of Hawaii, & four grandchildren. Mrs. H. Dean Wilgus of Cadiz is a cousin. A memorial service will be held June 25 in the Interfaith Chapel at the University of Rochester.
Source: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/McCANN/2001-09/1000925864 [viewed 3/6/2017]