The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 23 and obituary notices from the San Francisco Examiner.
Dr. Hassler's family moved to Stockton, California, when he was a boy. He studied at the College of Pharmacy in New York and then Cooper Medical College (Stanford) in 1892. In 1901 he became San Francisco's chief sanitary engineer and then in 1915 chief health officer. It was during the "flu epidemic" panic of 1918-19 that he became famous, seeing to it that everyone in the City had a protective gauze mask. Along the years he called for the killing of rats along the waterfront after the 1906 earthquake and got a tubercular sanitarium built. He represented the United States at the world health conference in 1926 (League of Nations). He wrote innumerable papers and spoke hundreds of times about health issues around the country. He lectured on preventive medicine at the University of California from 1916 to his death and was vice-president and then president of the American Public Health Association. Hassler was a member of all branches of Masonry being a master, high priest, commander and grand commander in California. The son of John Charles and Elizabeth (Keller) Hassler, he married Carrie (Currier) in 1896. She died in 1933. When Dr. Hassler died in 1931, his body lay in state at City Hall for two hours as thousands passed. On hand to give words of praise were SF Mayor Rossi and California Governor Rolph.
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Dr. Hassler's family moved to Stockton, California, when he was a boy. He studied at the College of Pharmacy in New York and then Cooper Medical College (Stanford) in 1892. In 1901 he became San Francisco's chief sanitary engineer and then in 1915 chief health officer. It was during the "flu epidemic" panic of 1918-19 that he became famous, seeing to it that everyone in the City had a protective gauze mask. Along the years he called for the killing of rats along the waterfront after the 1906 earthquake and got a tubercular sanitarium built. He represented the United States at the world health conference in 1926 (League of Nations). He wrote innumerable papers and spoke hundreds of times about health issues around the country. He lectured on preventive medicine at the University of California from 1916 to his death and was vice-president and then president of the American Public Health Association. Hassler was a member of all branches of Masonry being a master, high priest, commander and grand commander in California. The son of John Charles and Elizabeth (Keller) Hassler, he married Carrie (Currier) in 1896. She died in 1933. When Dr. Hassler died in 1931, his body lay in state at City Hall for two hours as thousands passed. On hand to give words of praise were SF Mayor Rossi and California Governor Rolph.
Provided by Richard Tourangeau
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 23 and obituary notices from the San Francisco Examiner.
Dr. Hassler's family moved to Stockton, California, when he was a boy. He studied at the College of Pharmacy in New York and then Cooper Medical College (Stanford) in 1892. In 1901 he became San Francisco's chief sanitary engineer and then in 1915 chief health officer. It was during the "flu epidemic" panic of 1918-19 that he became famous, seeing to it that everyone in the City had a protective gauze mask. Along the years he called for the killing of rats along the waterfront after the 1906 earthquake and got a tubercular sanitarium built. He represented the United States at the world health conference in 1926 (League of Nations). He wrote innumerable papers and spoke hundreds of times about health issues around the country. He lectured on preventive medicine at the University of California from 1916 to his death and was vice-president and then president of the American Public Health Association. Hassler was a member of all branches of Masonry being a master, high priest, commander and grand commander in California. The son of John Charles and Elizabeth (Keller) Hassler, he married Carrie (Currier) in 1896. She died in 1933. When Dr. Hassler died in 1931, his body lay in state at City Hall for two hours as thousands passed. On hand to give words of praise were SF Mayor Rossi and California Governor Rolph.
Provided by Richard Tourangeau
Dr. Hassler's family moved to Stockton, California, when he was a boy. He studied at the College of Pharmacy in New York and then Cooper Medical College (Stanford) in 1892. In 1901 he became San Francisco's chief sanitary engineer and then in 1915 chief health officer. It was during the "flu epidemic" panic of 1918-19 that he became famous, seeing to it that everyone in the City had a protective gauze mask. Along the years he called for the killing of rats along the waterfront after the 1906 earthquake and got a tubercular sanitarium built. He represented the United States at the world health conference in 1926 (League of Nations). He wrote innumerable papers and spoke hundreds of times about health issues around the country. He lectured on preventive medicine at the University of California from 1916 to his death and was vice-president and then president of the American Public Health Association. Hassler was a member of all branches of Masonry being a master, high priest, commander and grand commander in California. The son of John Charles and Elizabeth (Keller) Hassler, he married Carrie (Currier) in 1896. She died in 1933. When Dr. Hassler died in 1931, his body lay in state at City Hall for two hours as thousands passed. On hand to give words of praise were SF Mayor Rossi and California Governor Rolph.
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