physician, leader in the anti-tuberculosis movement, b. Reedsburg. He moved to Milwaukee with his parents in 1889. He graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago (M.D., 1900), and studied in New York and Vienna. Returning to Milwaukee in 1902, he began his practice as an orthopedic specialist. He was orthopedic surgeon at Milwaukee County Hospital (1905-1907) and at the Milwaukee Children's Hospital (1906-1910). A leader in the campaign against tuberculosis, Dearholt helped found the River Pines Sanitoriurn at Stevens Point (1906-1907) and was a founder of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. From 1910 to 1939 he was both executive secretary of this association and editor of its publication, The Crusader. He wrote numerous articles on the nature and control of tuberculosis, and was an officer of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis (1919-1920, 1925). Dearholt was chief of the health institute bureau of the Univ. of Wisconsin ex-tension division (1913-1920). Who's Who in Amer., 17 (1932); Crusader, 31 (8), pp. 4-45; F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); Milwaukee Journal, July 13, 1939.Learn More
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