Armstrong – Table of Contents

Mrs. Elizabeth Rich (Bess) Armstrong, gr^ aduation picture, Mount Union College,^
1910; Ms. Mary Emma Armstrong, around 1950. Courtesy of Mary Emma
Armstrong.
He applied to Johns Hopkins (4) because it^ had the “the best reputation in Ohio,
and it wasn’t much more expensive than other medical schools”. Dr. Armstrong’s
regional chauvinistic minimalist assessment of the Johns Hopkins Medical School is
amusing, particularly in view of its outstanding reputation from the time of the School’s
founding up to the present era. Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), an American financier and
philanthropist born in southern Maryland, left $7 million in his will to be divided equally
between the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital both of which
became incorporated in 1867. Instruction at the University began in1876, and the
Hospital opened in 1889. The School of Medicine opened in 1893. It accepted only
college graduates who had at least one year’s instruction in the natural sciences. The