Rupert Norton
1867 - 1914
Rupert Norton was born July 21, 1867, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Harvard Professor Charles Eliot Norton. He attended the Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge and then Harvard College, graduating in 1888. After more than a year of medical study in Germany, he returned to Boston to enter Harvard Medical School. He earned his M.D. in 1893.
Norton married Cecelia Hendrikson of Baltimore in June, 1893.
His career was divided between Boston, Baltimore, Washington, and Paris. He first served as the resident house officer at Boston Children's Hospital and later held the same post at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. After two years in Baltimore, he began to practice medicine in Washington, D.C.
At the outbreak of the Spanish American War in 1898, he entered government service and was sent to work in one of the laboratories in the large southern camps. He remained there until the close of the war. He then went to Paris as medical officer of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. He remained in Paris until 1906, when the company closed its Paris business. In 1907, he became assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He held this post until his death on June 19, 1914 at Baltimore. He was only 47.