Author: Franklin L. Shively Jr.
Date of birth: 12 October 1913
Date of death: 11 October 2009
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Franklin L. Shively Jr. was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Dr. Frank Shively, Sr. In 1931 he graduated from high school. In 1935 he graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and in 1938 he graduated from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, after completing his residency, he entered a four-year surgical residency at Cleveland Clinic Hospital, and in 1942 he became a staff member of the surgical department there. During World War II, he served as Chief of Surgery for the three different Army hospitals on the island of Guam, in Oahu, Hawaii, and in Chicago, Illinois. In 1947, following the war, he joined his father's private surgical practice in Dayton, Ohio, and worked as a staff member at the Miami Valley Hospital until his retirement in 1979. He was president of the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons three times. In 1977, he and another surgeon co-founded the Wright State Academy of Medicine. After retiring from his private practice, he became a teaching professor of surgery at the Dayton Virginia hospital for five years, he continued to contribute to the Wright State University School of Medicine.
