Isaac Montrose Taylor (June 15, 1921 – November 3, 1996) was an American physician and academic who served as dean of the Medical School of the
University of North Carolina
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from 1964 until 1971.
Early life
Taylor was born in
Morganton, North Carolina
Morganton is a city in and county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. It is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the Catawba River.
The population was 17,474 at the 2020 census. Morganton is approximately ...
. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his doctor of medicine from
Harvard University
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. He served as the chief resident at
Massachusetts General Hospital
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.
He then joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina Medical School before serving as dean for ten years.
In 1955, he joined the
United States Navy
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and became a medical officer. In 1957, he was a lieutenant commander and was a
bacteriologist
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at
McMurdo Station
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in
Antarctica
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for
Operation Deep Freeze
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.
Personal life
His first marriage to Gertrude Woodard produced five children who all became professional musicians:
*
Alex Taylor (1947)
*
James Vernon Taylor (1948)
*
Kate Taylor
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Biography
Taylor was born in Boston and grew up with her four ...
(1949)
*
Livingston Taylor
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(1950)
* Hugh Taylor (1952).
Through his second marriage to Suzanne Francis Sheats, he fathered three more children:
* Andrew Preston Taylor (1983)
* Theodore Haynes Taylor (1986)
* Julia Rose Taylor (1989).
See also
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Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
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*
John I. Taylor
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Biography
Taylor was the son of Charles H. Ta ...
References
External links
UNC School of Medicine History It summarizes Taylor and his deanship as follows.
The Papers of Isaac M. Taylorat Dartmouth College Library
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1921 births
1996 deaths
American bacteriologists
Harvard Medical School alumni
People from Morganton, North Carolina
Taylor family (show business)
United States Navy Medical Corps officers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of North Carolina School of Medicine faculty
20th-century American physicians