Topeka State Journal, Monday, Sept. 14, 1936, page 1&13:
Jerman Is Dead
Internationally Known as Scientist and Educator
Devoted Life to Development in the Field of X-Ray
Dr. Ed C. Jerman, 71, internationally known scientist and educator in the field of X-rays, died Sunday at his home, 2701 East Sixth street, a martyr to his science.
Years ago, when the development of X-rays was in its early stage before man knew its destructive as well as its curative power, Dr. Jerman was a pioneer in that field of science. Like many other pioneers, in bringing a great blessing to mankind he sacrificed his own life.
Gave Life to Science
The illness which resulted in his death was brought on by the destructive effect of X-rays upon human tissue – an effect against which he and his fellow pioneers had not known it to be necessary to protect themselves. One by one, his fellow workers have preceded him in death. Sunday he followed them.
But because of their example, and because of their tireless research, man today knows that X-ray equipment of almost undreamed power is practicable as an aid to medicine, providing it is judiciously used and its operations are isolated by thick leaden shields.
Dr. Jerman, who retired to his home in Topeka January 1, 1934, was director of the educational department, medical division, General Electric Company, for sixteen years.
This directorship was the climax of an active electro-medical career which began with work with static machines, in their manufacture and sale, grew into the more effective field of X-rays, and closed with Dr. Jerman as an internationally recognized leader in the field of X-ray education, the originator of a system or training for physicians and their attendants who wished to make use of X-rays battling disease.
Retained in Advisory Capacity
He closed that career with retirement from active participation in X-ray work, but was retained in advisory capacity by the General Electric Company, and devoted his tireless energy, when health permitted, to the arrangement of a museum of family keepsakes and relics, and the classification of a large collection of shells and types of rock.
He was following to the last a hobby which he developed in earlier years; a hobby which made him the treasured friend of many a child who joined in field days with Dr. Jerman, in search for shells or rocks to be studied and classified.
To these children he made science a thing alive. It was his hope that he could develop a workable plan by which school men similarly could make their classes in natural science more vivid for their pupils.
Dr. Jerman had been a resident of Topeka since 1903. He was born in Ripley county, Indiana, November 21, 1865, of parents of English and Scotch descent, Dr. and Mrs. L.W.D. Jerman.
He was graduated from the public schools of that county; entered Franklin college, Franklin, Ind., in 1882, but was forced by ill health to end his college work a year short of graduation. His father, a physician, was using galvanic and faradic batteries for treatment of his patients; in those batteries Dr. Jerman became interested in 1879 and 1880, and his life’s work began.
In 1889, entering the service of the Physicians and Surgeons Supply Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, he soon became the foreman of the company’s shop, manufacturing electrical appliances used by physicians and surgeons of that day. He retained foremanship until the owner, John Bryan, retired in 1891.
Constructed Pattee Machine
For six years following, he served as supervisor of construction and installation for all medical equipment for the H.H. Allen Surgical Institute, of Indianapolis, an orthopedic institution of 400 rooms. In that capacity in 1892 he began construction of the Pattee static machine, a small two-plate machine; also developed the larger Jerman static machine, much used by physicians of the Midwest, and being the only large machine with control of spark from zero to maximum.
In that shop he produced his first X-rays, using one of his machines and an imported tube, in May, 1896. Responding to the demand which X-ray development caused for larger static machines, Dr. Jerman organized, in 1897, the Jerman Medical Electic Company, which was moved to larger quarters and began to do business on a large scale.
Reorganized with more capital, the Jerman Medical Electric Company expanded in 1898, with Dr. Jerman continuing as sales manager and chief salesman until 1903. At this point ill health intervened again. He resigned and came west to Topeka, in October, 1903, seeking a better climate. Here medical treatment aided him to what then was considered complete recovery of health.
In 1904 he organized another company, with new manufacturing plant in Topeka for static X-ray machines and other medical electric equipment. He continued as manager and salesman for that company until 1909, when he stepped out of the manufacturing business to accept the Kansas agency for the Scheidel Western X-ray Company, of Chicago, but continued an association with the Victor Electric Company, of Chicago, which had begun in the late ‘90s.
He continued in this sales work until 1918, when he decided to enter the field of X-ray education, the field in which he won greatest eminence. For two years he gave private instruction in the handling and operation of X-ray equipment in laboratories desiring such assistance. The demand for such classes soon surpassed his individual power as a teacher to supply.
He took his problem and his conviction that this field was an essential one which must be supplied, to the Victor X-ray Corporation, and won for himself the direction of an educational department which he organized and continued to conduct until his retirement, again due to illness, January 1, 1934.
An Authority On X-Ray
Under his direction, personal service, assistance and instruction had been given to thousands of technicians and professional men from all parts of the world, enabling them to obtain maximum results from the X-ray equipment with which they worked.
Dr. Jerman himself had conducted several five to seven-day classes in various cities of this nation and in a number of foreign countries. Many of his articles were published in leading medical, hospital and X-ray journals. His books included “Victor Compendium Service,” published in the early ‘20s; and “Modern X-Ray Technic,” first printed in 1928, and still a leading text in schools in this and distant nations.
He won special distinction for the success of his radiograph study, in the Field Museum of natural history, Chicago, of mummies, of ancient Egypt and Peru, revealing the causes of death. The museum published a monograph as a result of this study.
For eight years he was an examiner for the American registry board, conducting the examinations for the first 1,000 American and Canadian technicians registered by that board. Since 1920 he had traveled in more than thirty foreign countries in his educational work.
He was a charter member of the American Roentgen Ray society; an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for many years; an honorary member of the British Society of Radiographers; and co-founder, president and president-emeritus of the American Society of X-ray Technicians.
In 1928 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Franklin college, his alma mater, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in X-ray work.
He was a member of the First Baptist church, Topeka; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Civil War Veterans; the United Commercial Travelers; the Shrine and Scottish Rite; and of the Napoleon Blue lodge, Newpoint, Ind.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ada Bloom Jerman, to whom he was married October 24, 1887; by a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Harwood, of the home address; by two grandchildren and three great grandchildren; one brother, Elmer Jerman, superintendent of schools at Greensberg, Ind.; and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Rainey, of Lebanon, Ind., and Mrs. Stella Kurt, of South Bend, Ind.
Funeral services will be at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Allen J. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist church in charge. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home Tuesday afternoon, and until 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning.
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Jerman Is Dead
Internationally Known as Scientist and Educator
Devoted Life to Development in the Field of X-Ray
Dr. Ed C. Jerman, 71, internationally known scientist and educator in the field of X-rays, died Sunday at his home, 2701 East Sixth street, a martyr to his science.
Years ago, when the development of X-rays was in its early stage before man knew its destructive as well as its curative power, Dr. Jerman was a pioneer in that field of science. Like many other pioneers, in bringing a great blessing to mankind he sacrificed his own life.
Gave Life to Science
The illness which resulted in his death was brought on by the destructive effect of X-rays upon human tissue – an effect against which he and his fellow pioneers had not known it to be necessary to protect themselves. One by one, his fellow workers have preceded him in death. Sunday he followed them.
But because of their example, and because of their tireless research, man today knows that X-ray equipment of almost undreamed power is practicable as an aid to medicine, providing it is judiciously used and its operations are isolated by thick leaden shields.
Dr. Jerman, who retired to his home in Topeka January 1, 1934, was director of the educational department, medical division, General Electric Company, for sixteen years.
This directorship was the climax of an active electro-medical career which began with work with static machines, in their manufacture and sale, grew into the more effective field of X-rays, and closed with Dr. Jerman as an internationally recognized leader in the field of X-ray education, the originator of a system or training for physicians and their attendants who wished to make use of X-rays battling disease.
Retained in Advisory Capacity
He closed that career with retirement from active participation in X-ray work, but was retained in advisory capacity by the General Electric Company, and devoted his tireless energy, when health permitted, to the arrangement of a museum of family keepsakes and relics, and the classification of a large collection of shells and types of rock.
He was following to the last a hobby which he developed in earlier years; a hobby which made him the treasured friend of many a child who joined in field days with Dr. Jerman, in search for shells or rocks to be studied and classified.
To these children he made science a thing alive. It was his hope that he could develop a workable plan by which school men similarly could make their classes in natural science more vivid for their pupils.
Dr. Jerman had been a resident of Topeka since 1903. He was born in Ripley county, Indiana, November 21, 1865, of parents of English and Scotch descent, Dr. and Mrs. L.W.D. Jerman.
He was graduated from the public schools of that county; entered Franklin college, Franklin, Ind., in 1882, but was forced by ill health to end his college work a year short of graduation. His father, a physician, was using galvanic and faradic batteries for treatment of his patients; in those batteries Dr. Jerman became interested in 1879 and 1880, and his life’s work began.
In 1889, entering the service of the Physicians and Surgeons Supply Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, he soon became the foreman of the company’s shop, manufacturing electrical appliances used by physicians and surgeons of that day. He retained foremanship until the owner, John Bryan, retired in 1891.
Constructed Pattee Machine
For six years following, he served as supervisor of construction and installation for all medical equipment for the H.H. Allen Surgical Institute, of Indianapolis, an orthopedic institution of 400 rooms. In that capacity in 1892 he began construction of the Pattee static machine, a small two-plate machine; also developed the larger Jerman static machine, much used by physicians of the Midwest, and being the only large machine with control of spark from zero to maximum.
In that shop he produced his first X-rays, using one of his machines and an imported tube, in May, 1896. Responding to the demand which X-ray development caused for larger static machines, Dr. Jerman organized, in 1897, the Jerman Medical Electic Company, which was moved to larger quarters and began to do business on a large scale.
Reorganized with more capital, the Jerman Medical Electric Company expanded in 1898, with Dr. Jerman continuing as sales manager and chief salesman until 1903. At this point ill health intervened again. He resigned and came west to Topeka, in October, 1903, seeking a better climate. Here medical treatment aided him to what then was considered complete recovery of health.
In 1904 he organized another company, with new manufacturing plant in Topeka for static X-ray machines and other medical electric equipment. He continued as manager and salesman for that company until 1909, when he stepped out of the manufacturing business to accept the Kansas agency for the Scheidel Western X-ray Company, of Chicago, but continued an association with the Victor Electric Company, of Chicago, which had begun in the late ‘90s.
He continued in this sales work until 1918, when he decided to enter the field of X-ray education, the field in which he won greatest eminence. For two years he gave private instruction in the handling and operation of X-ray equipment in laboratories desiring such assistance. The demand for such classes soon surpassed his individual power as a teacher to supply.
He took his problem and his conviction that this field was an essential one which must be supplied, to the Victor X-ray Corporation, and won for himself the direction of an educational department which he organized and continued to conduct until his retirement, again due to illness, January 1, 1934.
An Authority On X-Ray
Under his direction, personal service, assistance and instruction had been given to thousands of technicians and professional men from all parts of the world, enabling them to obtain maximum results from the X-ray equipment with which they worked.
Dr. Jerman himself had conducted several five to seven-day classes in various cities of this nation and in a number of foreign countries. Many of his articles were published in leading medical, hospital and X-ray journals. His books included “Victor Compendium Service,” published in the early ‘20s; and “Modern X-Ray Technic,” first printed in 1928, and still a leading text in schools in this and distant nations.
He won special distinction for the success of his radiograph study, in the Field Museum of natural history, Chicago, of mummies, of ancient Egypt and Peru, revealing the causes of death. The museum published a monograph as a result of this study.
For eight years he was an examiner for the American registry board, conducting the examinations for the first 1,000 American and Canadian technicians registered by that board. Since 1920 he had traveled in more than thirty foreign countries in his educational work.
He was a charter member of the American Roentgen Ray society; an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for many years; an honorary member of the British Society of Radiographers; and co-founder, president and president-emeritus of the American Society of X-ray Technicians.
In 1928 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Franklin college, his alma mater, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in X-ray work.
He was a member of the First Baptist church, Topeka; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Civil War Veterans; the United Commercial Travelers; the Shrine and Scottish Rite; and of the Napoleon Blue lodge, Newpoint, Ind.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ada Bloom Jerman, to whom he was married October 24, 1887; by a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Harwood, of the home address; by two grandchildren and three great grandchildren; one brother, Elmer Jerman, superintendent of schools at Greensberg, Ind.; and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Rainey, of Lebanon, Ind., and Mrs. Stella Kurt, of South Bend, Ind.
Funeral services will be at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Allen J. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist church in charge. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home Tuesday afternoon, and until 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning.
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Topeka State Journal, Monday, Sept. 14, 1936, page 1&13:
Jerman Is Dead
Internationally Known as Scientist and Educator
Devoted Life to Development in the Field of X-Ray
Dr. Ed C. Jerman, 71, internationally known scientist and educator in the field of X-rays, died Sunday at his home, 2701 East Sixth street, a martyr to his science.
Years ago, when the development of X-rays was in its early stage before man knew its destructive as well as its curative power, Dr. Jerman was a pioneer in that field of science. Like many other pioneers, in bringing a great blessing to mankind he sacrificed his own life.
Gave Life to Science
The illness which resulted in his death was brought on by the destructive effect of X-rays upon human tissue – an effect against which he and his fellow pioneers had not known it to be necessary to protect themselves. One by one, his fellow workers have preceded him in death. Sunday he followed them.
But because of their example, and because of their tireless research, man today knows that X-ray equipment of almost undreamed power is practicable as an aid to medicine, providing it is judiciously used and its operations are isolated by thick leaden shields.
Dr. Jerman, who retired to his home in Topeka January 1, 1934, was director of the educational department, medical division, General Electric Company, for sixteen years.
This directorship was the climax of an active electro-medical career which began with work with static machines, in their manufacture and sale, grew into the more effective field of X-rays, and closed with Dr. Jerman as an internationally recognized leader in the field of X-ray education, the originator of a system or training for physicians and their attendants who wished to make use of X-rays battling disease.
Retained in Advisory Capacity
He closed that career with retirement from active participation in X-ray work, but was retained in advisory capacity by the General Electric Company, and devoted his tireless energy, when health permitted, to the arrangement of a museum of family keepsakes and relics, and the classification of a large collection of shells and types of rock.
He was following to the last a hobby which he developed in earlier years; a hobby which made him the treasured friend of many a child who joined in field days with Dr. Jerman, in search for shells or rocks to be studied and classified.
To these children he made science a thing alive. It was his hope that he could develop a workable plan by which school men similarly could make their classes in natural science more vivid for their pupils.
Dr. Jerman had been a resident of Topeka since 1903. He was born in Ripley county, Indiana, November 21, 1865, of parents of English and Scotch descent, Dr. and Mrs. L.W.D. Jerman.
He was graduated from the public schools of that county; entered Franklin college, Franklin, Ind., in 1882, but was forced by ill health to end his college work a year short of graduation. His father, a physician, was using galvanic and faradic batteries for treatment of his patients; in those batteries Dr. Jerman became interested in 1879 and 1880, and his life’s work began.
In 1889, entering the service of the Physicians and Surgeons Supply Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, he soon became the foreman of the company’s shop, manufacturing electrical appliances used by physicians and surgeons of that day. He retained foremanship until the owner, John Bryan, retired in 1891.
Constructed Pattee Machine
For six years following, he served as supervisor of construction and installation for all medical equipment for the H.H. Allen Surgical Institute, of Indianapolis, an orthopedic institution of 400 rooms. In that capacity in 1892 he began construction of the Pattee static machine, a small two-plate machine; also developed the larger Jerman static machine, much used by physicians of the Midwest, and being the only large machine with control of spark from zero to maximum.
In that shop he produced his first X-rays, using one of his machines and an imported tube, in May, 1896. Responding to the demand which X-ray development caused for larger static machines, Dr. Jerman organized, in 1897, the Jerman Medical Electic Company, which was moved to larger quarters and began to do business on a large scale.
Reorganized with more capital, the Jerman Medical Electric Company expanded in 1898, with Dr. Jerman continuing as sales manager and chief salesman until 1903. At this point ill health intervened again. He resigned and came west to Topeka, in October, 1903, seeking a better climate. Here medical treatment aided him to what then was considered complete recovery of health.
In 1904 he organized another company, with new manufacturing plant in Topeka for static X-ray machines and other medical electric equipment. He continued as manager and salesman for that company until 1909, when he stepped out of the manufacturing business to accept the Kansas agency for the Scheidel Western X-ray Company, of Chicago, but continued an association with the Victor Electric Company, of Chicago, which had begun in the late ‘90s.
He continued in this sales work until 1918, when he decided to enter the field of X-ray education, the field in which he won greatest eminence. For two years he gave private instruction in the handling and operation of X-ray equipment in laboratories desiring such assistance. The demand for such classes soon surpassed his individual power as a teacher to supply.
He took his problem and his conviction that this field was an essential one which must be supplied, to the Victor X-ray Corporation, and won for himself the direction of an educational department which he organized and continued to conduct until his retirement, again due to illness, January 1, 1934.
An Authority On X-Ray
Under his direction, personal service, assistance and instruction had been given to thousands of technicians and professional men from all parts of the world, enabling them to obtain maximum results from the X-ray equipment with which they worked.
Dr. Jerman himself had conducted several five to seven-day classes in various cities of this nation and in a number of foreign countries. Many of his articles were published in leading medical, hospital and X-ray journals. His books included “Victor Compendium Service,” published in the early ‘20s; and “Modern X-Ray Technic,” first printed in 1928, and still a leading text in schools in this and distant nations.
He won special distinction for the success of his radiograph study, in the Field Museum of natural history, Chicago, of mummies, of ancient Egypt and Peru, revealing the causes of death. The museum published a monograph as a result of this study.
For eight years he was an examiner for the American registry board, conducting the examinations for the first 1,000 American and Canadian technicians registered by that board. Since 1920 he had traveled in more than thirty foreign countries in his educational work.
He was a charter member of the American Roentgen Ray society; an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for many years; an honorary member of the British Society of Radiographers; and co-founder, president and president-emeritus of the American Society of X-ray Technicians.
In 1928 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Franklin college, his alma mater, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in X-ray work.
He was a member of the First Baptist church, Topeka; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Civil War Veterans; the United Commercial Travelers; the Shrine and Scottish Rite; and of the Napoleon Blue lodge, Newpoint, Ind.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ada Bloom Jerman, to whom he was married October 24, 1887; by a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Harwood, of the home address; by two grandchildren and three great grandchildren; one brother, Elmer Jerman, superintendent of schools at Greensberg, Ind.; and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Rainey, of Lebanon, Ind., and Mrs. Stella Kurt, of South Bend, Ind.
Funeral services will be at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Allen J. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist church in charge. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home Tuesday afternoon, and until 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning.
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Links to parents sent by Mary Carson (#47517280)
Jerman Is Dead
Internationally Known as Scientist and Educator
Devoted Life to Development in the Field of X-Ray
Dr. Ed C. Jerman, 71, internationally known scientist and educator in the field of X-rays, died Sunday at his home, 2701 East Sixth street, a martyr to his science.
Years ago, when the development of X-rays was in its early stage before man knew its destructive as well as its curative power, Dr. Jerman was a pioneer in that field of science. Like many other pioneers, in bringing a great blessing to mankind he sacrificed his own life.
Gave Life to Science
The illness which resulted in his death was brought on by the destructive effect of X-rays upon human tissue – an effect against which he and his fellow pioneers had not known it to be necessary to protect themselves. One by one, his fellow workers have preceded him in death. Sunday he followed them.
But because of their example, and because of their tireless research, man today knows that X-ray equipment of almost undreamed power is practicable as an aid to medicine, providing it is judiciously used and its operations are isolated by thick leaden shields.
Dr. Jerman, who retired to his home in Topeka January 1, 1934, was director of the educational department, medical division, General Electric Company, for sixteen years.
This directorship was the climax of an active electro-medical career which began with work with static machines, in their manufacture and sale, grew into the more effective field of X-rays, and closed with Dr. Jerman as an internationally recognized leader in the field of X-ray education, the originator of a system or training for physicians and their attendants who wished to make use of X-rays battling disease.
Retained in Advisory Capacity
He closed that career with retirement from active participation in X-ray work, but was retained in advisory capacity by the General Electric Company, and devoted his tireless energy, when health permitted, to the arrangement of a museum of family keepsakes and relics, and the classification of a large collection of shells and types of rock.
He was following to the last a hobby which he developed in earlier years; a hobby which made him the treasured friend of many a child who joined in field days with Dr. Jerman, in search for shells or rocks to be studied and classified.
To these children he made science a thing alive. It was his hope that he could develop a workable plan by which school men similarly could make their classes in natural science more vivid for their pupils.
Dr. Jerman had been a resident of Topeka since 1903. He was born in Ripley county, Indiana, November 21, 1865, of parents of English and Scotch descent, Dr. and Mrs. L.W.D. Jerman.
He was graduated from the public schools of that county; entered Franklin college, Franklin, Ind., in 1882, but was forced by ill health to end his college work a year short of graduation. His father, a physician, was using galvanic and faradic batteries for treatment of his patients; in those batteries Dr. Jerman became interested in 1879 and 1880, and his life’s work began.
In 1889, entering the service of the Physicians and Surgeons Supply Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, he soon became the foreman of the company’s shop, manufacturing electrical appliances used by physicians and surgeons of that day. He retained foremanship until the owner, John Bryan, retired in 1891.
Constructed Pattee Machine
For six years following, he served as supervisor of construction and installation for all medical equipment for the H.H. Allen Surgical Institute, of Indianapolis, an orthopedic institution of 400 rooms. In that capacity in 1892 he began construction of the Pattee static machine, a small two-plate machine; also developed the larger Jerman static machine, much used by physicians of the Midwest, and being the only large machine with control of spark from zero to maximum.
In that shop he produced his first X-rays, using one of his machines and an imported tube, in May, 1896. Responding to the demand which X-ray development caused for larger static machines, Dr. Jerman organized, in 1897, the Jerman Medical Electic Company, which was moved to larger quarters and began to do business on a large scale.
Reorganized with more capital, the Jerman Medical Electric Company expanded in 1898, with Dr. Jerman continuing as sales manager and chief salesman until 1903. At this point ill health intervened again. He resigned and came west to Topeka, in October, 1903, seeking a better climate. Here medical treatment aided him to what then was considered complete recovery of health.
In 1904 he organized another company, with new manufacturing plant in Topeka for static X-ray machines and other medical electric equipment. He continued as manager and salesman for that company until 1909, when he stepped out of the manufacturing business to accept the Kansas agency for the Scheidel Western X-ray Company, of Chicago, but continued an association with the Victor Electric Company, of Chicago, which had begun in the late ‘90s.
He continued in this sales work until 1918, when he decided to enter the field of X-ray education, the field in which he won greatest eminence. For two years he gave private instruction in the handling and operation of X-ray equipment in laboratories desiring such assistance. The demand for such classes soon surpassed his individual power as a teacher to supply.
He took his problem and his conviction that this field was an essential one which must be supplied, to the Victor X-ray Corporation, and won for himself the direction of an educational department which he organized and continued to conduct until his retirement, again due to illness, January 1, 1934.
An Authority On X-Ray
Under his direction, personal service, assistance and instruction had been given to thousands of technicians and professional men from all parts of the world, enabling them to obtain maximum results from the X-ray equipment with which they worked.
Dr. Jerman himself had conducted several five to seven-day classes in various cities of this nation and in a number of foreign countries. Many of his articles were published in leading medical, hospital and X-ray journals. His books included “Victor Compendium Service,” published in the early ‘20s; and “Modern X-Ray Technic,” first printed in 1928, and still a leading text in schools in this and distant nations.
He won special distinction for the success of his radiograph study, in the Field Museum of natural history, Chicago, of mummies, of ancient Egypt and Peru, revealing the causes of death. The museum published a monograph as a result of this study.
For eight years he was an examiner for the American registry board, conducting the examinations for the first 1,000 American and Canadian technicians registered by that board. Since 1920 he had traveled in more than thirty foreign countries in his educational work.
He was a charter member of the American Roentgen Ray society; an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for many years; an honorary member of the British Society of Radiographers; and co-founder, president and president-emeritus of the American Society of X-ray Technicians.
In 1928 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Franklin college, his alma mater, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in X-ray work.
He was a member of the First Baptist church, Topeka; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Civil War Veterans; the United Commercial Travelers; the Shrine and Scottish Rite; and of the Napoleon Blue lodge, Newpoint, Ind.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ada Bloom Jerman, to whom he was married October 24, 1887; by a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Harwood, of the home address; by two grandchildren and three great grandchildren; one brother, Elmer Jerman, superintendent of schools at Greensberg, Ind.; and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Rainey, of Lebanon, Ind., and Mrs. Stella Kurt, of South Bend, Ind.
Funeral services will be at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Allen J. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist church in charge. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home Tuesday afternoon, and until 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning.
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