From the editor

このブログの設立趣旨、今後の内容予定をお伝えします。

This is a memorial blog to praise achievements of Dr. Willis Norton Whitney,  the founder of Akasaka Hospital, Tokyo.

[画像出典] 犬塚孝明、石黒敬章

『明治の若き群像――森有礼旧蔵アルバム』

平凡社 2006 / p.133.

Who was he?

• born at Newark, New Jersey, USA, 18th October 1854 (not 1855*).
• son of William Cogswell Whitney (1825-1882), bookkeeping teacher.
• son of Anna Lavina Whitney,  née Mockridge. 
• elder brother of Clara A. Whitney, wife of KAJI Stephen Umetaro.
• elder brother of Adelaide Norton Whitney, wife of Rev. David Marshall Lang of C. M. S.
• husband of Mary Caroline Braithwaite, of an English old Quaker family. 
• studied at Collegiate and Commercial Institute (later Russell Military Academy), New Haven, Connecticut. 
• lived in Japan 1875 to 1911 (sometimes absent).
• Doctor of Medicine and Ophthalmic Surgeon (1881 Pennsylvania University; M.R.C.S., Eng., 1904; L.R.C.P., London Hospital).
• Interpreter, at the American Legation in Tokyo, 1883 to 1895.
• founded Akasaka Hospital, 1886 (closed 1927).
• became a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, USA, 1889.
• recorded as a minister of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, USA, from 1902.
• died at Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, 26th October 1918, aged 63.

* There are papers showing that he was born not in 1855, but 1854.

As a storage space of reference materials, you'll see on this blog:

• bibliography in Japanese and English
• articles on magazines and books on the net
• pictures
• places related him in Japan
• a chronological table

Information about Dr W. N. Whitney is rather limited and not very accessible now. I hope that this blog will be helpful to those who are interested in this missionary doctor,  worked independently.

* The date of each blog entry is not always the actual date of posting in.
* I am doing add information and rewrite article, if necessary, at any time. I do seek anything to add to make this blog better.

YAGITANI Ryoko, editor 八木谷涼子
Japan
08 December 2014

Images are cut out and processed by the editor.

Thanks for the those prepared the original data on books and the net.

Last updated 21 Oct. 2016