Friday, May 31, 2013

Henry F. Graff, M.D. (1900-1993)

Dr. Henry F. Graff, an ophthalmologist from Hagerstown, MD, died April 14, 1993.  He was born 1 Feb 1900 in West Virginia, the son of grocer Frederick L. Graff.  He graduated from Marietta College in Ohio and the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.  He married Florence Hill, and practiced ophthalmology in Baltimore for twenty years before entering practice with his brother Fred Jr. in Hagerstown in 1948. 

Dr. Graff was state supervising ophthalmologist in the Public Assistance to the Needy Blind Program from 1937 until he retired in 1964.  A diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, he was also a member of the AMA.  He was an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the University of Maryland and chief of the Ophthalmological Clinic.  He served as a clinical assistant at the Wilmer Ophthalmic Clinic for ten years.

He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church and a former member of the Kiwanis Clubs of Baltimore and Hagerstown. 

++ based on obituary published in the Maryland Medical Journal August 1993.  Compiler is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family. 

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