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Michael
Angelo
Cunningham,
superintendent
of the
Jefferson
County
Tuberculosis
Hospital in
Beaumont for
twenty years,
was born in
Malvern, Iowa,
on August 24,
1889, the son
of Michael and
Margaret
(Aistrope)
Cunningham. He
attended
schools in
Malvern and
received a
medical degree
from Creighton
Medical
College in
Omaha,
Nebraska, in
1913. After an
internship at
St.
Mary-Corwin
Hospital in
Pueblo,
Colorado, he
became
assistant
superintendent
of the Iowa
State
Sanatorium at
Oakdale.
Afterwards he
became medical
director of
Holy Cross
Sanatorium in
Deming, New
Mexico. In
1939 he became
medical
director and
superintendent
of the
Jefferson
County
Tuberculosis
Hospital in
Beaumont,
Texas. In 1935
Cunningham
joined
thirty-eight
other
physicians to
establish the
American
College of
Chest
Physicians.
Like
Cunningham,
most of these
physicians
were busily
involved in
the treatment
of patients
with
tuberculosis.
Cunningham
served for
fifteen years
as a director
of the Texas
Tuberculosis
Association.
He was also a
member of the
National
Tuberculosis
Association,
the American
Trudeau
Society, the
Jefferson
County Medical
Society, the
Texas Medical
Association,qv
the American
Medical
Association,
and the
Southwestern
Medical
Association.
He married
Harriett M.
Miller of
Waterloo,
Iowa, and they
had a son.
Cunningham was
a Mason. He
died in
Beaumont on
September 20,
1959.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Beaumont Enterprise,
September 21,
1959. Beaumont
Journal,
September 21,
1959, Texas
State Journal
of Medicine,
December 1959.
Chester
R. Burns
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