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American surgeon (1883–1957)

Evarts Ambrose Graham (March 19, 1883– March 4, 1957) was an American academic, physician, and surgeon.

Early years and military service

Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, David Wilson Graham, and Ida Ansbach Barned Graham,^[2] Evarts attended college at Princeton University (A.B., 1904) and received his M.D.

degree from Rush Medical College in 1907.^[3] Graham then trained as a surgery resident at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, and subsequently as a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Chicago.

There, he met his wife, Helen Tredway, Ph.D. (1890-1971), a biochemist and pharmacologist.^[4] Evarts served as a Major (O4) in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1917 to 1919, and was initially posted to Camp Lee (now Fort Lee, Virginia).

He completed revolutionary new work on surgical technique for the treatment of empyema, which had become important following the influenza pandemic