The obituary of Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill as published in the January 16, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
Funeral Is Held For Dr. Fred W. Caudill
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13 - Funeral services for Dr. Fred W. Caudill, 1828 Princeton Drive, epidemiologist with the State Board of Health who died Saturday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m., tomorrow at Highland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery.
He was graduated from Centre College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and attended Harvard on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Ill for Two Years.
Dr. Caudill had been ill for two years, but his death was unexpected. He was a native of Blackey, Letcher County.
Almost his entire medical career was spent in fighting spread of disease. He was on the spot for years in scores of communities throughout Kentucky as infantile paralysis, childhood epidemics, and other communicable diseases threatened to become widespread.
One of his last major jobs was his effort to control the 1944 polio epidemic in Kentucky. His work in the flood of 1937 made him well known to Louisvillians. He organized immunization aganst diseases that threatened in the wake of the high waters. During the war he was active in the fight to bring venereal disease under control in Kentucky.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill; four children, Welden, Neville, Carole, and Linda Caudill; two brothers, Larry Caudill, Louisville, and Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother, Mrs. W. J. Caudill, Blackey.
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The following tribute to Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill was published in the January 23, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
A TRIBUTE TO DR. CAUDILL
Letcher county along with every other county in the state suffered a grievious loss last week in the death in Louisville of Dr. Fred Caudill who was epidemiologist on the State Board of Health.
Dr. Caudill, 46, was born and reared in Letcher County, the son of Mrs. Hettie Caudill and the late Willie J. Caudill, of Blackey, and became one of the most eminent physicians in the country as an expert in the control of epidemics of communicable diseases.
It was to the service of his fellow men and the state of Kentucky that Dr. Caudill gave his life. He had been ill about two years from a strange ailment which interested famous physicians all over the nation after he was stricken with a sudden chest paralysis which almost cost him his life two years ago.
After extensive study at Louisville and Boston, eminent doctors concluded that some time in the past few years, Dr. Caudill had contracted, possibly, from one of the disease's victims, a mild case of poliomyelitis, or infantle paralysis.
This resulted in encephalitis and thus was the cause of the paralysis which ultimately caused his death. At his own request extensive postmortem study of his condition was directed by Dr. A. J. Miller and Dr. Eleanor Townsend of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and several other leading Louisville doctors.
High tribute was paid by other Louisville physicians to Dr. Caudill.
"Nobody ever gave of himself more freely or exposed himself more in trying to control communicable diseases than did Dr. Caudill," said State Health Commissioner P. E. Blackerby.
Despite his illness, Dr. Caudill had continued his work intermittently and at the time of his death was codifying and modernizing State health laws relating to communicable diseases.
Despite his illness, death was unexpected. Only the day before he died he was on a short fishing trip with his brother, Larry Caudill, 1320 Audubon Parkway, Louisville, and a brother-in-law, James c. Rogers, Hazard.
A native of Blackey, he was one of the first class of 3 graduates from Stuart Robinson school, the others being his brother and Vinton Caudill, a cousin. He graduated from Centre College, where he played in the line on the famous football team led by Bo McMillin which in 1921 defeated Harvard. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and received a degree in public health from Harvard.
He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, social fraternity at Centre, and Phi Chi, medical fraternity, and was a deacon of Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church.
From the time he left medical school he devoted most of his life to fighting the spread of disease. He started practice at Jenkins with Dr. W. W. Nicholson, who was his closest friend until death separated them. He worked in Perry and Scott counties before becoming state epidemiologist in 1935.
Some of his most important work was in setting up health departments in counties over the State.
Outbreak of disease even in the most remote section took him almost immediately to the spot. One of his last major jobs was a fight to control the 1944 polio epidemic.
With the late Lee Hamilton, attorney for the State Board of Health, he was responsible for many of Kentucky's present health laws.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill, children, Welden, Neville, Carole and Linda; another, brother, Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother.
His funeral was held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
Funeral Is Held For Dr. Fred W. Caudill
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13 - Funeral services for Dr. Fred W. Caudill, 1828 Princeton Drive, epidemiologist with the State Board of Health who died Saturday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m., tomorrow at Highland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery.
He was graduated from Centre College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and attended Harvard on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Ill for Two Years.
Dr. Caudill had been ill for two years, but his death was unexpected. He was a native of Blackey, Letcher County.
Almost his entire medical career was spent in fighting spread of disease. He was on the spot for years in scores of communities throughout Kentucky as infantile paralysis, childhood epidemics, and other communicable diseases threatened to become widespread.
One of his last major jobs was his effort to control the 1944 polio epidemic in Kentucky. His work in the flood of 1937 made him well known to Louisvillians. He organized immunization aganst diseases that threatened in the wake of the high waters. During the war he was active in the fight to bring venereal disease under control in Kentucky.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill; four children, Welden, Neville, Carole, and Linda Caudill; two brothers, Larry Caudill, Louisville, and Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother, Mrs. W. J. Caudill, Blackey.
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The following tribute to Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill was published in the January 23, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
A TRIBUTE TO DR. CAUDILL
Letcher county along with every other county in the state suffered a grievious loss last week in the death in Louisville of Dr. Fred Caudill who was epidemiologist on the State Board of Health.
Dr. Caudill, 46, was born and reared in Letcher County, the son of Mrs. Hettie Caudill and the late Willie J. Caudill, of Blackey, and became one of the most eminent physicians in the country as an expert in the control of epidemics of communicable diseases.
It was to the service of his fellow men and the state of Kentucky that Dr. Caudill gave his life. He had been ill about two years from a strange ailment which interested famous physicians all over the nation after he was stricken with a sudden chest paralysis which almost cost him his life two years ago.
After extensive study at Louisville and Boston, eminent doctors concluded that some time in the past few years, Dr. Caudill had contracted, possibly, from one of the disease's victims, a mild case of poliomyelitis, or infantle paralysis.
This resulted in encephalitis and thus was the cause of the paralysis which ultimately caused his death. At his own request extensive postmortem study of his condition was directed by Dr. A. J. Miller and Dr. Eleanor Townsend of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and several other leading Louisville doctors.
High tribute was paid by other Louisville physicians to Dr. Caudill.
"Nobody ever gave of himself more freely or exposed himself more in trying to control communicable diseases than did Dr. Caudill," said State Health Commissioner P. E. Blackerby.
Despite his illness, Dr. Caudill had continued his work intermittently and at the time of his death was codifying and modernizing State health laws relating to communicable diseases.
Despite his illness, death was unexpected. Only the day before he died he was on a short fishing trip with his brother, Larry Caudill, 1320 Audubon Parkway, Louisville, and a brother-in-law, James c. Rogers, Hazard.
A native of Blackey, he was one of the first class of 3 graduates from Stuart Robinson school, the others being his brother and Vinton Caudill, a cousin. He graduated from Centre College, where he played in the line on the famous football team led by Bo McMillin which in 1921 defeated Harvard. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and received a degree in public health from Harvard.
He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, social fraternity at Centre, and Phi Chi, medical fraternity, and was a deacon of Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church.
From the time he left medical school he devoted most of his life to fighting the spread of disease. He started practice at Jenkins with Dr. W. W. Nicholson, who was his closest friend until death separated them. He worked in Perry and Scott counties before becoming state epidemiologist in 1935.
Some of his most important work was in setting up health departments in counties over the State.
Outbreak of disease even in the most remote section took him almost immediately to the spot. One of his last major jobs was a fight to control the 1944 polio epidemic.
With the late Lee Hamilton, attorney for the State Board of Health, he was responsible for many of Kentucky's present health laws.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill, children, Welden, Neville, Carole and Linda; another, brother, Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother.
His funeral was held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
The obituary of Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill as published in the January 16, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
Funeral Is Held For Dr. Fred W. Caudill
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13 - Funeral services for Dr. Fred W. Caudill, 1828 Princeton Drive, epidemiologist with the State Board of Health who died Saturday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m., tomorrow at Highland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery.
He was graduated from Centre College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and attended Harvard on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Ill for Two Years.
Dr. Caudill had been ill for two years, but his death was unexpected. He was a native of Blackey, Letcher County.
Almost his entire medical career was spent in fighting spread of disease. He was on the spot for years in scores of communities throughout Kentucky as infantile paralysis, childhood epidemics, and other communicable diseases threatened to become widespread.
One of his last major jobs was his effort to control the 1944 polio epidemic in Kentucky. His work in the flood of 1937 made him well known to Louisvillians. He organized immunization aganst diseases that threatened in the wake of the high waters. During the war he was active in the fight to bring venereal disease under control in Kentucky.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill; four children, Welden, Neville, Carole, and Linda Caudill; two brothers, Larry Caudill, Louisville, and Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother, Mrs. W. J. Caudill, Blackey.
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The following tribute to Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill was published in the January 23, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
A TRIBUTE TO DR. CAUDILL
Letcher county along with every other county in the state suffered a grievious loss last week in the death in Louisville of Dr. Fred Caudill who was epidemiologist on the State Board of Health.
Dr. Caudill, 46, was born and reared in Letcher County, the son of Mrs. Hettie Caudill and the late Willie J. Caudill, of Blackey, and became one of the most eminent physicians in the country as an expert in the control of epidemics of communicable diseases.
It was to the service of his fellow men and the state of Kentucky that Dr. Caudill gave his life. He had been ill about two years from a strange ailment which interested famous physicians all over the nation after he was stricken with a sudden chest paralysis which almost cost him his life two years ago.
After extensive study at Louisville and Boston, eminent doctors concluded that some time in the past few years, Dr. Caudill had contracted, possibly, from one of the disease's victims, a mild case of poliomyelitis, or infantle paralysis.
This resulted in encephalitis and thus was the cause of the paralysis which ultimately caused his death. At his own request extensive postmortem study of his condition was directed by Dr. A. J. Miller and Dr. Eleanor Townsend of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and several other leading Louisville doctors.
High tribute was paid by other Louisville physicians to Dr. Caudill.
"Nobody ever gave of himself more freely or exposed himself more in trying to control communicable diseases than did Dr. Caudill," said State Health Commissioner P. E. Blackerby.
Despite his illness, Dr. Caudill had continued his work intermittently and at the time of his death was codifying and modernizing State health laws relating to communicable diseases.
Despite his illness, death was unexpected. Only the day before he died he was on a short fishing trip with his brother, Larry Caudill, 1320 Audubon Parkway, Louisville, and a brother-in-law, James c. Rogers, Hazard.
A native of Blackey, he was one of the first class of 3 graduates from Stuart Robinson school, the others being his brother and Vinton Caudill, a cousin. He graduated from Centre College, where he played in the line on the famous football team led by Bo McMillin which in 1921 defeated Harvard. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and received a degree in public health from Harvard.
He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, social fraternity at Centre, and Phi Chi, medical fraternity, and was a deacon of Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church.
From the time he left medical school he devoted most of his life to fighting the spread of disease. He started practice at Jenkins with Dr. W. W. Nicholson, who was his closest friend until death separated them. He worked in Perry and Scott counties before becoming state epidemiologist in 1935.
Some of his most important work was in setting up health departments in counties over the State.
Outbreak of disease even in the most remote section took him almost immediately to the spot. One of his last major jobs was a fight to control the 1944 polio epidemic.
With the late Lee Hamilton, attorney for the State Board of Health, he was responsible for many of Kentucky's present health laws.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill, children, Welden, Neville, Carole and Linda; another, brother, Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother.
His funeral was held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
Funeral Is Held For Dr. Fred W. Caudill
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 13 - Funeral services for Dr. Fred W. Caudill, 1828 Princeton Drive, epidemiologist with the State Board of Health who died Saturday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m., tomorrow at Highland Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery.
He was graduated from Centre College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and attended Harvard on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
Ill for Two Years.
Dr. Caudill had been ill for two years, but his death was unexpected. He was a native of Blackey, Letcher County.
Almost his entire medical career was spent in fighting spread of disease. He was on the spot for years in scores of communities throughout Kentucky as infantile paralysis, childhood epidemics, and other communicable diseases threatened to become widespread.
One of his last major jobs was his effort to control the 1944 polio epidemic in Kentucky. His work in the flood of 1937 made him well known to Louisvillians. He organized immunization aganst diseases that threatened in the wake of the high waters. During the war he was active in the fight to bring venereal disease under control in Kentucky.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill; four children, Welden, Neville, Carole, and Linda Caudill; two brothers, Larry Caudill, Louisville, and Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; two sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother, Mrs. W. J. Caudill, Blackey.
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The following tribute to Dr. Fred Weldon Caudill was published in the January 23, 1947, issue of The Mountain Eagle:
A TRIBUTE TO DR. CAUDILL
Letcher county along with every other county in the state suffered a grievious loss last week in the death in Louisville of Dr. Fred Caudill who was epidemiologist on the State Board of Health.
Dr. Caudill, 46, was born and reared in Letcher County, the son of Mrs. Hettie Caudill and the late Willie J. Caudill, of Blackey, and became one of the most eminent physicians in the country as an expert in the control of epidemics of communicable diseases.
It was to the service of his fellow men and the state of Kentucky that Dr. Caudill gave his life. He had been ill about two years from a strange ailment which interested famous physicians all over the nation after he was stricken with a sudden chest paralysis which almost cost him his life two years ago.
After extensive study at Louisville and Boston, eminent doctors concluded that some time in the past few years, Dr. Caudill had contracted, possibly, from one of the disease's victims, a mild case of poliomyelitis, or infantle paralysis.
This resulted in encephalitis and thus was the cause of the paralysis which ultimately caused his death. At his own request extensive postmortem study of his condition was directed by Dr. A. J. Miller and Dr. Eleanor Townsend of the University of Louisville School of Medicine and several other leading Louisville doctors.
High tribute was paid by other Louisville physicians to Dr. Caudill.
"Nobody ever gave of himself more freely or exposed himself more in trying to control communicable diseases than did Dr. Caudill," said State Health Commissioner P. E. Blackerby.
Despite his illness, Dr. Caudill had continued his work intermittently and at the time of his death was codifying and modernizing State health laws relating to communicable diseases.
Despite his illness, death was unexpected. Only the day before he died he was on a short fishing trip with his brother, Larry Caudill, 1320 Audubon Parkway, Louisville, and a brother-in-law, James c. Rogers, Hazard.
A native of Blackey, he was one of the first class of 3 graduates from Stuart Robinson school, the others being his brother and Vinton Caudill, a cousin. He graduated from Centre College, where he played in the line on the famous football team led by Bo McMillin which in 1921 defeated Harvard. He graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and received a degree in public health from Harvard.
He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, social fraternity at Centre, and Phi Chi, medical fraternity, and was a deacon of Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church.
From the time he left medical school he devoted most of his life to fighting the spread of disease. He started practice at Jenkins with Dr. W. W. Nicholson, who was his closest friend until death separated them. He worked in Perry and Scott counties before becoming state epidemiologist in 1935.
Some of his most important work was in setting up health departments in counties over the State.
Outbreak of disease even in the most remote section took him almost immediately to the spot. One of his last major jobs was a fight to control the 1944 polio epidemic.
With the late Lee Hamilton, attorney for the State Board of Health, he was responsible for many of Kentucky's present health laws.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Frank Caudill, children, Welden, Neville, Carole and Linda; another, brother, Arch Caudill, Williamsburg, Ky.; sisters, Mrs. Tinsley May, Louisville, and Mrs. James C. Rogers, Hazard, and his mother.
His funeral was held at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
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