This is a documentary about my Great-Grandfather, Dr. Morris Abel Slocum.
Born in 1899, he grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1911 and received his doctorate in general surgery in 1915.
In 1917, he volunteered in the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British army and was promoted as a Lieutenant. He served in Passchendaele (3rd Battle of Ypres), Arras, and the Somme.
He met his wife Clementine Marie Louise Mistiaen in London and they got married in 1919. They moved back to America, a month after getting married and had two daughters, Marie Louise (1920) and Elizabeth (1921).
In 1921, Dr. Slocum became the Chief of General Surgery at St. Margaret's Hospital in Pittsburgh. Clementine died of pneumonia in 1928. Morris would go on to remarry two times. He died in 1950 after falling down a set of stairs and suffering a heart attack. He was 61 years old.
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