Edward Livingston Trudeau [SEP] date of birth
Edward Livingston Trudeau
Edward Livingston Trudeau (5 October 1848 – 15 November 1915) was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis. Dr. Trudeau also established the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, the first laboratory in the United States dedicated to the study of tuberculosis. He was a public health pioneer who helped to establish principles for disease prevention and control.
Life and career.
Named for statesman Edward Livingston, Trudeau was born in New York City to a family
(1887–1911), who was an aspiring playwright. Suffering from anorexia nervosa, Dorothy died in 1911 aged 23, and it is her death that spurred Hazel to leave America.
In 1903, she married Edward Livingston Trudeau Jr, son of Edward Livingston Trudeau, a doctor who advanced the treatment of tuberculosis. Trudeau, himself a physician, died five months later. They had one daughter, Alice, born 10 October 1904. While still married to Trudeau, she met John Lavery, a Catholic-born painter originally