Dr. Alexander Mileau, Jr., retired Army surgeon, died on July 4, 1955 in Brookside General Hospital in San Antonio, of a heart disease. He was a native of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, born February 1, 1890 to Alexandre Mileau and Marie Louise Dupuis Mileau. He attended school in Lewiston, Maine, and received his medical education at the Tufts Medical College in Boston in 1916. After serving an internship at the Children's Hospital in New York City, Dr. Mileau was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps and served overseas during World War I with the First Division.
After the war, he attended several service schools including Flight Surgeon's School and Army Medical School, for two years, and in 1922 was appointed post surgeon of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Four years later, he was transferred to Brooks Field in San Antonio, where he was a post surgeon. In 1930 he received an appointment as senior flight surgeon, Philippine Department, Philippine Islands. He was also a rated pilot.
In 1933, Dr. Mileau returned to Texas as post surgeon for Fort Crockett in Galveston, and was later stationed briefly with the obstetrical and orthopedic service in Fort Sam Houston. He retired with the rank of major in September, 1934. He became superintendent of the Robert B. Green Hospital in San Antonio in 1938, a position which he held until 1944, when he began his private practice.
He was a member of the Bexar County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association and Phi Chi medical fraternity. He was also a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
On October 8, 1917, Dr. Mileau married Miss Louise M. Reynolds of Mount Savage, Maryland, in New York City. Mrs. Mileau survives, along with three daughters; Mrs. Marie Louise Seeburger of Mexico City, Miss Janet E. Mileau, and Mrs. Joan D. Jacobs, both of San Antonio.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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Thanks for this posting of Dr. Mileau. He delivered my mother in 1940 at Robert B Green Hospital. Unfortunate my Grandmother (18yrs old) passed away 2 days after. I'm researching my family history but not getting much results. Can't even locate my grandmothers Cemetery (Leoncito)per death certificate. Funeral home has no record where it's located and not much help. Anyway, Thanks for posting this.
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