Dates

• Existence: 1886-1973

Biography

Frederick David Francis was born July 9, 1886, in Windfall, Indiana. He graduated from Plainfield Academy and Earlham College, where he received a B. S. in 1911 with a major in chemistry. In 1915 he married Laura Belle Wright of Idaville, Indiana. Francis taught in public schools in Indiana and was superintendent of schools at Gilman, Iowa, before he and Laura moved to Iowa City in 1920.   Laura taught junior high school while Francis earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the State University of Iowa, graduating in June 1924. That same year he worked as an assistant demonstrator at SUI and was promoted to instructor (1925), assistant professor (1929), associate professor (1939), and was made full professor in 1943. He was named head of the Dental Pathology, Therapeutics, and Periodontia department in 1944. He received grant money from the National Institutes of Health from 1948-1950 to research oral cancer. Francis retired in 1953 and died November 19, 1973, the same year the College of Dentistry occupied the new Dental Science Building.

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