
He was sent over to France in 1918, as a battalion surgeon with the 81st Division. He enlisted in the Medical Corps and spent the next, a bit more than two years, in the Army Medical Corps. not broke out, but when the United States entered World War I, in the Spring of 1917. He had just started his internship at Bellevue when World War I. He took his bachelor's degree in 1911 from CCNY and his medical degree in 1916 from Columbia, the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

whose name also was Alfred, was born in 1890. SI: Can you tell us a little bit about your father, who was also named Alfred Sloan, his background, what he did for a living?ĪS: Yes, right. I was born on Christmas Eve, 1921, at Sloane Hospital, if you must know, which was the "lying-in" division, I think, of Columbia-Presbyterian. Sloan, thank you very much for having us here today.Īlfred Sloan, Jr.: A pleasure to have you with me.ĪS: I was born in New York, right here in this very county, Manhattan, New York County or Manhattan. Sloan, Jr., on July 6, 2005, in New York City, New York State, with Shaun Illingworth and.

Shaun Illingworth: This begins an interview with Dr.
