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Letter to Harvey Cushing, July 8, 1926
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Dr. Horace Preston Hoskins was born on January 3, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was an American veterinarian and editor. Dr. Hoskins became an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Science and Assistant Veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. He served as an editor of the North American Veterinarian and was later named editor emeritus of Modern Veterinary Practice. From 1923 until 1939, Dr. Hoskins served as an editor of The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
In 1913, he married Anna M. Smith (1880–). He died on May 30, 1967, in Evanston, Cook, Illinois.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from H. Preston Hoskins, Secretary-Editor, American Veterinary Medical Association, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Hoskins sends a copy of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association containing an article by Dr. Ward Giltner entitled "Osler and Veterinary Medicine," which draws heavily on Cushing's "Life of Sir William Osler." [See CUS417/57.52] Hoskins' father and Osler had offices within in block of each other in Philadelphia. He writes of Dr. Joseph Hawkins, who attended school with Osler in Dundas.
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