John P. McGovern, MD: A Lifetime of Stories

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Abbreviations HAM–TMC—Houston Academy of Medicine–Texas Medical Center JPM—John P. McGovern JPM-HC—John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, Texas Medical Center Library, Houston Papers—John P. McGovern Papers at John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, Texas Medical Center Library, Houston Introduction 1. Appreciations, Reminiscences and Tributes Honoring John P. McGovern, ed. Gilbert D. Barkin et al. (Houston: Health Sciences Institute, 1980). 2. JPM to Bryant Boutwell, November 29, 1994, Papers, MS 115, Box 6: Office Files, Books and Publications, Folder 6: B. Boutwell; Boylan, Michael. 3. Dale Lezon and Todd Ackerman, “Doctor Became Known for Giving,” Houston Chronicle, June 1, 2007. 4. Finding Aid for the John P. McGovern Papers, Papers, MS 115. 5. Grant Taylor, introduction to Appreciations, 5. Chapter One 1. Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 2. Francis McGovern to JPM, June 29, 1921, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 3: Special letter on Jack’s birth. 3. Ann Gallagher to JPM, no date, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 8: JPM Correspondence. Notes 224 | notes to pages 14–24 4. Wedding Announcement of Lottie Brown and Dr. Francis McGovern, October 13, 1918, Papers, MS 115, Box: McGovern Personal 5, Folder 6: Lottie Brown McGovern Photographs. 5. Thomas E. Mahoney, contribution to Appreciations, 114 (see intro., n. 1). 6. Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington: A History of the Capital, 1800– 1950 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962), 380. 7. Ibid., 377. 8. Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America 1929–1941 (New York: Random House, 1993), Kindle edition. 9. Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, The Bonus Army: An American Epic (New York: Walker, 2004). 10. Green, Washington: A History, 373. 11. Shelby Hodge, “A Gift for Giving: Heritage of Generosity Sets Houston Doctor on Lifelong Philanthropic Path,” Houston Chronicle, August 25, 1996. 12. Theodore Wiprud, “Francis Xavier McGovern, M.D., F.A.C.S. (1893–1951),” Medical Annals of the District of Columbia 20, no. 10 (1951): 577–78. 13. “Hospital Center History,” MedStar Washington Hospital Center, last modified January 25, 2012, http://www.whcenter.org/body.cfm?id=555916. 14. Washington Hospital Center Act, Public Law 648, 79th Congress, Chapter 803, 2nd Session, S. 223 (August 7, 1946). 15. Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (New York: Crown, 2011), Kindle edition. 16. Philippine Independence Act, Public Law 73–127, 48 Stat. 456 (March 24, 1934). 17. Eleanor D. Tydings to Francis McGovern, July 31, 1946, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 17: F. X. McGovern Various Documents. 18. “Mac McGovern, Washingtonian of the Week,” Washington Post, January 3, 1941. 19. Wiprud, “Francis Xavier McGovern,” 577–78. 20. Ibid. 21. A. Ziegler McPherson, contribution to Appreciations, 30. 22. JPM to Lottie Brown, October 5, 1964, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 7: Jack’s Letters to Mother 1960–1978. 23. Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever (New York: Norton, 1996), 159–60. 24. Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine , 1845–1850 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 1. 25. Ibid., 15. 26. Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 569. 27. Bartoletti, Black Potatoes, 7. 28. Ann Gallagher to JPM, no date, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 8: JPM Correspondence. 29. John Fahrnkoff, District of Columbia naturalization papers certifying U.S. citizenship, May 27, 1862, Papers, MS 115, Box 6, Folder: Personal. notes to pages 24–41 | 225 30. Hodge, “A Gift for Giving.” 31. JPM, personal conversation with the author, April 2000. 32. Bank book belonging to JPM, May 27, 1929, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder: Personal Correspondence. 33. JPM to Mary Brown, July 12, 1929, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal Correspondence 4, Folder 13: Jack to Grandmother Brown. 34. JPM dictation to Julia Mitchell, 1993, 3, Papers, MS 115, Box: Personal 1, Folder: Helen Hayes. 35. Helen Hayes, On Reflection: An Autobiography (New York: M. Evans, 1968), 20. 36. Ibid., 19. 37. Ibid., 32. 38. Ibid., 28–30. 39. Ibid., 33. 40. Ibid. 41. Brad Snyder, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004), 4. 42. JPM dictation to Julia Mitchell, 1993, 3. 43. Helen Hayes, contribution to Appreciations, 262. 44. Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression. 45...