Dr. Roy Edwin Bushong, 1886-1967, husband of first Alda Entsminger, 1883-1918
and second Helen Rose Wagner, 1902-1995.

Dr. Bushong was an attending psychiatrist at the Athens State Hospital and Asylum, in Ohio. Dr. Roy E. Bushong served as one of four assistant physicians under Superintendent O. O. Fordyce from 1912 to 1919. He married E. Alda Entsminger, a nurse at the Athens State Hospital, in late 1912. She resigned in May of the following year. Roy Bushong went on to become the head of the laboratory at the Toledo State Hospital in the 1920s and superintendent of the Lima State Hospital for Criminal Insane in the 1930s and 1940s.


Athens State Hospital staff on steps of Administration Building, circa 1911 to 1912. Dr. Bushong is in the back row, on the far right. Written on back of postcard: "Dr. Bushong, Dr. Hooper, Dr. F. A. Osborn, Dr. J. Sprague."


Dr. Bushong is in the back row, sixth from the left. Caption on back of the photograph is: “4th back row Dr. F. A. Osborn; 6th “ Dr. Bushong; 7th “ Nannie Arthur; Last front row Agnes Devlin; 1st front row R. McLaughlin; 2nd front row Dr. Dorr.”

In the photograph, he is identified as Dr. R. E. Bushong, standing second from left. Two others identified are Dr. Bert Shoemaker third from left and Dr. Freeman Osborne forth from the left.


Top photo cropped from group photo. Next two group photographs compliments of: Ohio University Libraries Digital Archival Collections. Bottom photograph: OhGen.net



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