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Stokes (CHARLES FRANCIS an American)

CHARLES FRANCIS, an American physician and naval officer, born in New York City, in 1863. He was educated at Adelphi Academy and Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1889 he entered the navy as an assistant surgeon and after being promoted surgeon, medical inspector, and medical director, he became surgeon-general, U. S. N., and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery with the rank of rear-admiral in 1910. He was retired in 1917.