Wilfred Mason Barton, M’1892 (July 16, 1871 – April 3, 1930)1 was a Georgetown University School assistant professor and a medical inspector of schools in the District of Columbia.
Barton was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Georgetown University Medical School in 1892. After interning in the Washington Asylum Hospital, the United States Marine Hospital service in Chicago, Illinois and serving as house physician at the Columbia Hospital for Women, he entered private practice in D.C. He later was appointed as assistant professor in the Georgetown University Medical School to teach materia medicia and therapeutics.2
He was well known as a medical writer; among the works he authored was a Thesaurus of Medical Terms and Phrases in collaboration with Dr. W.A. Wells which was published in 1903. At the time of his death, he was chair of the department of medicine at Georgetown.
- 1 “Medical College Dean is Dead at 58: Dr. W.M. Barton, Georgetown U. Professor, Dies in Mayo Clinic. Well known as Writer.” The Washington Post, D.C., April 4, 1930
- 2Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907, its founders, benefactors, officers, instructors and alumni. James Stanislaus Easby-Smith. New York : Lewis, 1907
