John Ryan Devereux – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army

JohnRyan Devereux of Kansas

Appointed from Washington, D.C., Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, 29 June 1901


John Ryan Devereux was born on December 16, 1868, at Lawrence, Kansas. He served in both the Medical Corps and the Inspector General Corps of the United States Army.

He is the father of James Patrick Sinnott Devereux.

He died on July 2, 1936 and is buried in Section 7 of Arlington National Cemetery.


DR. J. R. DEVERSUX, WAR VETERAN, DEAD

Former Professor of Medicine at Georgetown Served in Army Medical Corps

WASHINGTON, July 3, 1936 – Dr. John Ryan Devereux, former Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and a retired Army and Public Health Service physician, died yesterday after an illness of two months at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  Death was due to paralysis of the respiratory organs.  He was 67 years old.

Dr. Devereux was born in Lawrence, Kansas.  His father was a circuit judge and an uncle was the late Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia. An ancestor was an officer in the army of Louis XVI of France.  Mr. Devereux was a graduate of Notre Dame University.

He received his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania.  During the Spanish-American War and subsequently in the World War, Mr. Devereux served in the Medical Corps of the Army.  He assisted Herbert Hoover on the administration of relief in Serbia and in 1925 organized relief work in Rumania for Pope Pius.

His widow, who was Miss Annie L. Sinnott of Philadelphia, and four daughters, survive.  The funeral will be held at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning at the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase.  Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery o at 11:30 o’clock Monday morning.


DEVEREUX, AGNES S D/O JOHN RYAN

  • DATE OF BIRTH: 11/14/1910
  • DATE OF DEATH: 04/04/1972
  • BURIED AT: SECTION 7  SITE 10282 SS
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
  • DAUGHTER OF JR DEVEREUX. MAJ USA

DEVEREUX, ANNIE S WIDOW OF JOHN RYAN

  • DATE OF DEATH: 10/27/1944
  • BURIED AT: SECTION 7  SITE 10282
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
  • WIFE OF JR DEVEREUX, MAJOR IGD US ARMY

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