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Simon Baruch

1840-07-29 – 1921-06-03

Portrait of Simon Baruch
Portrait of Simon Baruch from The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XVIII, 1922, pages 72–73Credit: Unknown author

Life & Legacy

Simon Baruch (July 29, 1840 – June 3, 1921) was a Prussian-American physician, scholar, and the foremost advocate of the urban public bathhouse to benefit public health in the United States. An American Civil War veteran of the Confederate States Army, after the war Baruch was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Occupation & Career

physician, surgeon

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q1465166 — wikidata View source

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