Dr. Wilfrid Edward Muldoon died October 3, 1955 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio on November 29, 1896 and received his preliminary education there. Following his graduation from high school, he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he earned his bachelor of science degree in 1920. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1922, and went to the Panama Canal Zone, where he interned at the Ancon Hospital for one year.
Dr. Muldoon practiced in the Tela Railroad Hospital in Honduras for two years before going to Europe to study ophthalmology at the University of Paris, the University of Bordeaux and the University of Vienna. Returning to the United States, he served a two-year residency in ophthalmology at the Wills eye Hospital in Philadelphia before beginning his own practice in San Antonio.
Dr. Muldoon was a member of the Bexar County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Association, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and was a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He was also a member of the Association Medico Hondureno and the American Medical Association of Vienna.
Survivors include Mrs. Muldoon, a son, William Henry Muldoon, a daughter, Miss Laurie Muldoon, all of San Antonio, and three brothers, William H. Muldoon of San Antonio, James Muldoon of Baltimore, Edward M. Muldoon of Archbold, Ohio; and three sisters, Mrs. Edna Pyle of San Antonio, Miss Mary Blanche Muldoon of Toledo, and Mrs. Fred C. Medicus of Berkeley, California.
-- -- -- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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