American orthopedic surgeon (1874–1944)
Michael Hoke
Born 1874 Died 1944 Known for Leading orthopedic surgeon College football career Position Halfback College North Carolina (1892)
Southern championship (1892)
Michael Hoke (1874 – 1944) was a leading orthopedic surgeon who pioneered the advance of the science for disabled children throughout the United States .[ 1]
The son of American Civil War Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke , Michael Hoke spent his childhood in Raleigh, North Carolina . He was a nephew of Robert Van Wyck , the first Mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898.
Hoke attended the University of North Carolina , where he was captain of the school's first great football team in 1892 .[ 2]
He was involved in the founding of the first Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Decatur, Georgia . He served as one of five orthopedic consultants in the development of Shriners ' Children's Hospitals across the United States. He served on the Alfred I. DuPont Institute for Crippled Children in Wilmington, Delaware .
In 1931, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Hoke as the medical director of the Institution for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in Warm Springs, Georgia .
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