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Frank McMahon's registration card and class certification tickets from the Halifax Medical College
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- Source of title proper: taken from folder contents
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MS-2-224, SF Box 33, Folder 1
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9 cards
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(1864-1949)
Biographical history
J. Frank McMahon was born in 1864 to George W. and Margaret McMahon. He passed his matriculation examinination of the provinical medical board in 1887 and attended Halifax Medical College during the 1887-1888 session. There is no record that he continued his medical studies past this year. By 1897 he was living in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, and working as a clerk when he married Margaret H. McIntyre. At his death in 1949 he was a retired general merchant; he was survived by his second wife, Irene McMahon.
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Files contains Frank McMahon's registration tickets for the Halifax Medical College (Dalhousie College and University Medical Faculty) and his attendance/examination cards for Anatomy, Materia Medica, Practical Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Botany, and Chemistry. The cards are printed on coloured heavy card and are held in a small black leather-bound folder. Cards are variously signed by John Forrest, A.W.H. Lindsay, D.A. Campbell, Arthur Morrow, John Somers, George L. Sinclair, and others. The back of one card contains a note from A.W.H. Lindsay about dissections.
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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room.
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The cards have been signed by John Forrest, A. W. H. Lindsay, D. A. Campbell, Arthur Morrow, John Somers, George L. Sinclair, and others. The back of one card also includes a note from A. W. H. Lindsay about dissections that McMahon participated in
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- Dalhousie University. Faculty of Medicine (Subject)
- Halifax Medical College (Subject)
- Forrest, John (Subject)
- Lindsay, Andrew Walter Herdman (Subject)
- Campbell, Donald Alexander (Subject)