UB & the 1901 Exposition
| 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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