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Frederick Creighton Wellman
Frederick Creighton Wellman (January 3, 1873, near Kansas City, Missouri – September 3, 1960, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American physician specialising in tropical medicine, scientist, author, playwright, teacher, artist and engineer. As an author, he wrote under the pseudonyms Cyril Kay-Scott and Richard Irving Carson. His colorful life led to the epithet "the Casanova of Tropical Medicine".
Frederick Creighton Wellman was born on January 3, 1873, in Independence, Missouri, his father was Wheeler Montgomery Wellman and his mother was Nellie Jane, née Blake. He attended the Central High School, Kansas City before going on to study medicine at the Medical Department, University of Kansas, Kansas City in 1894, conducting his clinical studies at Rush and Cook County hospitals in Chicago. He also studied natural science and social science at the University of Chicago before moving to England to study clinical pathology at various hospitals, and tropical medicine and hygiene at the London School of Tropical Medicine, where he achieved a diploma in 1904. He also appears to have studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary for a Bachelor of Divinity degree with a thesis entitled Physical obstacles to evangelization, which was completed in 1895.
In 1896 he took up a post in Portuguese West Africa as a medical missionary for a British charity, travelling there with his first wife, Lydia Jeanette Isely (1869-1948). He remained for nine years. During his time in Portuguese West Africa he was said to have "gone native", to the horror of the missionaries he was working alongside.
In 1907 Wellman was involved, as a scientist, in the exploration of the route of the Benguela railway. In Africa he undertook research, publishing many papers and he had a correspondence with the American Society of Tropical Medicine.
After leaving Africa, he returned to London, where he studied entomology, and soon he had gained some renown in that field. From 1909-1911 he was a professor of tropical medicine at the Oakland (California) College of Medicine.
By 1911 Lydia and Wellman, who by now had four children, were divorced. He married his second wife, the concert pianist Edna Willis, at Buffalo, New York in 1908. He also travelled to Honduras in 1912, where he met and befriended Seely Dunn, a railroad engineer who was constructing a railroad in that country for the United Fruit Company. That year he published a paper entitled The New Orleans School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the American Journal of Epidemiology under the name "Dr Creighton Wellman"; this paper set out a plan for the creation of a new independent school of public health. Wellman had been appointed chair of tropical medicine and hygiene at Tulane in 1911. The founding of a school of tropical medicine and hygiene at Tulane was largely funded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and it was largely funded by a donation of US$25,000 by the businessman Samuel Zemurray. However, Wellman unexpectedly departed this post on December 26, 1913, when he suddenly eloped with the then-20-year-old Elsie Dunn, the daughter of his friend from Honduras, Seely Dunn. The couple moved to New York City, where they adopted the aliases of Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn Scott.
Wellman was editor of the American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine from 1913 to 1915.
As Elsie was a minor, and Wellman had travelled over state lines with her, the Dunns reported him to the police, so soon after they got to New York, they fled to London, living for a time in Bloomsbury as husband and wife. At some point Wellman realized that they were about to be recognized, and he was able to persuade the British Museum to send him to South America to collect insect specimens. The couple took a steamer from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro. However, he was unable to fulfil his commitment to the Museum, as it would give his identity away. Wellman was able to obtain a position as a bookkeeper at a shop selling Singer Sewing Machines. While in Brazil they lived in poverty, staying for six years, and while there Elsie gave birth to their son Creighton Scott. This period is recounted in Escapade, a memoir Elsie wrote under her pseudonym of Evelyn Scott.
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Frederick Creighton Wellman
Frederick Creighton Wellman (January 3, 1873, near Kansas City, Missouri – September 3, 1960, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American physician specialising in tropical medicine, scientist, author, playwright, teacher, artist and engineer. As an author, he wrote under the pseudonyms Cyril Kay-Scott and Richard Irving Carson. His colorful life led to the epithet "the Casanova of Tropical Medicine".
Frederick Creighton Wellman was born on January 3, 1873, in Independence, Missouri, his father was Wheeler Montgomery Wellman and his mother was Nellie Jane, née Blake. He attended the Central High School, Kansas City before going on to study medicine at the Medical Department, University of Kansas, Kansas City in 1894, conducting his clinical studies at Rush and Cook County hospitals in Chicago. He also studied natural science and social science at the University of Chicago before moving to England to study clinical pathology at various hospitals, and tropical medicine and hygiene at the London School of Tropical Medicine, where he achieved a diploma in 1904. He also appears to have studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary for a Bachelor of Divinity degree with a thesis entitled Physical obstacles to evangelization, which was completed in 1895.
In 1896 he took up a post in Portuguese West Africa as a medical missionary for a British charity, travelling there with his first wife, Lydia Jeanette Isely (1869-1948). He remained for nine years. During his time in Portuguese West Africa he was said to have "gone native", to the horror of the missionaries he was working alongside.
In 1907 Wellman was involved, as a scientist, in the exploration of the route of the Benguela railway. In Africa he undertook research, publishing many papers and he had a correspondence with the American Society of Tropical Medicine.
After leaving Africa, he returned to London, where he studied entomology, and soon he had gained some renown in that field. From 1909-1911 he was a professor of tropical medicine at the Oakland (California) College of Medicine.
By 1911 Lydia and Wellman, who by now had four children, were divorced. He married his second wife, the concert pianist Edna Willis, at Buffalo, New York in 1908. He also travelled to Honduras in 1912, where he met and befriended Seely Dunn, a railroad engineer who was constructing a railroad in that country for the United Fruit Company. That year he published a paper entitled The New Orleans School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the American Journal of Epidemiology under the name "Dr Creighton Wellman"; this paper set out a plan for the creation of a new independent school of public health. Wellman had been appointed chair of tropical medicine and hygiene at Tulane in 1911. The founding of a school of tropical medicine and hygiene at Tulane was largely funded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and it was largely funded by a donation of US$25,000 by the businessman Samuel Zemurray. However, Wellman unexpectedly departed this post on December 26, 1913, when he suddenly eloped with the then-20-year-old Elsie Dunn, the daughter of his friend from Honduras, Seely Dunn. The couple moved to New York City, where they adopted the aliases of Cyril Kay-Scott and Evelyn Scott.
Wellman was editor of the American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine from 1913 to 1915.
As Elsie was a minor, and Wellman had travelled over state lines with her, the Dunns reported him to the police, so soon after they got to New York, they fled to London, living for a time in Bloomsbury as husband and wife. At some point Wellman realized that they were about to be recognized, and he was able to persuade the British Museum to send him to South America to collect insect specimens. The couple took a steamer from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro. However, he was unable to fulfil his commitment to the Museum, as it would give his identity away. Wellman was able to obtain a position as a bookkeeper at a shop selling Singer Sewing Machines. While in Brazil they lived in poverty, staying for six years, and while there Elsie gave birth to their son Creighton Scott. This period is recounted in Escapade, a memoir Elsie wrote under her pseudonym of Evelyn Scott.