Document Type
Article
Publication Title
ADA Presidents Album
Abstract
Doctor Hartzell, of Minneapolis, became the fifty-ninth president of the Association at the 1921 meeting in Milwaukee. In that year, a number of dental schools began stipulating one year of predental college work as a requirement for admission. Doctor Hartzell, who was a dentist and a physician, in 1904 organized the periodontia department at the University of Minnesota, where he was a professor of oral and general surgery. He was the author of several books on mouth diseases and surgery. Doctor Hartzell was for many years a member of the Research Commission of the American Dental Association. He was born in Ohio in 1866 and died in 1951.
Publication Date
1977
Recommended Citation
American Dental Association, "ADA President 1921-1922: Thomas B. Hartzell" (1977). ADA Presidents. 48.
https://commons.ada.org/presidents/48
Included in
Dentistry Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons
Comments
Content comprises text (a brief biography and historical highlights), facsimile of autograph and a photographic portrait for each ADA President from 1860 to 1977.