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James W. Haviland

American physician (1911–2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2023
Entity authorityQ6144796 ↗
Source-derived summary

James W. Haviland (July 18, 1911 – November 14, 2007) was an American medical doctor and specialist in Internal Medicine co-founder of the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-founder of the Northwest Kidney Centers.

Haviland graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1936. Haviland married twice, to Marion Bertram (d. 1993); Mary Katherine (Burden, 1st Marriage; Cook, Maiden Name) in 1997. Haviland had four children.

He died at his home in Bremerton, Washington, on November 14, 2007, of natural causes.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 2007, 1936, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-07-18. For this dossier, James, Haviland and American is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 15, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6144796. VIAF identifies the subject as 60749391. The Library of Congress control number is n92805522. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911, 2007, 1936 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “James W. Haviland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.