The history of UB (then
known as the "University of Buffalo") and the Pan American Exposition are
intertwined throughout the Exposition's planning, its happy summer days,
and its moment of everlasting fame when a U.S. President was assassinated
on the Exposition grounds.
UB in 1901 was comprised of the
schools of Medicine/Pharmacy, Dentistry,
and Law. The university had no single
geographic location, few female students, and no College of Arts
& Sciences or undergraduate program (and would not for another
10+ years).
Medical School students assisted
in staffing the Exposition Hospital. And, on September 6, third-year medical
student T. F. Ellis, ambulance driver, transported President McKinley
to the Hospital in the electric ambulance shortly after he had been shot
in the Temple of Music.
And UB's medical faculty
participated in the subsequent operation and care of the President until
his death a week later.
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