Major Daniel Marsh Shewbrooks, M.D., was born on February 12, 1955 in Ware, Massachusetts. He received his education as Holden High School in Holden, Massachusetts, Middlebury Collect in Vermont (B.A. 1909), and Johns Hopkins Medical School (M.D. 1915). He served with the Serbian Red Cross during a typhoid epidemic in 1915, and was subsequently commissioned Captain of the Medical Reserve Corps in 1917 and Major of the Medical Reserve Corps in 1918. After serving as part of the Medical Officer Training Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas he became Instructor of Military and Sanitation and Hygiene and Assistant to Post Surgeon at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point from 1918 to 1919. He was honorably discharged in 1919. After his military service, Dr. Shewbrooks worked as Assistant Medical Director for various insurance companies, became Assistant Cardiologist at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1940, and Medical Director of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. in 1947. This collection consists of the papers of Maj. Shewbrooks, MD, who served as a sanitation instructor in World War 1. Items include news clippings of him in the service and miscellaneous home news, photos of West Point, his first wife, and friends, official Army papers regarding service and rank, a personal notebook with medical and Army notes, manuscripts, insurance records, and certificates.

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