Was a leader in Chicago's insurance industry.His diverse career included work in medicine,advocating for African-American health care and for the training of African-American medical personnel.
In 1914 Dr.Bousfield accepted a job as a secretary of the Railway Men's International Benevolent Association,an African-American railroad union that later became the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
In 1919 Dr.Bousfield left the union to become one of the founders Liberty Life Insurance Company headquartered in Chicago.Dr.Bousfield was the medical director and later president of Liberty Life.In 1929 he helped engineer the merger of Liberty Life and two other African-American insurance companies,Supreme Life of Columbus,Ohio and Northeastern Life of Newark,New Jersey.Dr.Bousfield became the vice president and medical director of the combined firm,Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company.
Dr.Bousfield spent much of the remainder of his career developing and improving health care and medical training opportunities for African-Americans.As director of Negro Health Division for the Julius Rosenwald
Fund,he helped finance the education of numerous future African-American physicians and nurses.
Dr.Bosfield also was responsible for developing the Infantile Paralysis Unit at Tuskegee University and a similar facility at Provident Hospital in Chicago.
From 1933-1934 he was president of the National Medical Association (NMA),an organization of African-American physicians across the nation.In 1939 Dr.Bousfield was appointed the first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Education.
Three years later in 1942 Dr.Bousfield was selected to command the U.S. Army's Station Hospital,all-African-American hospital in Fort Huachuca,Arizona.The hospital served the 14,000 African American women and men stationed at the fort in training for combat in World War II.Dr.Bousfield earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and retired in 1945 as the Medical Corp's first African-American colonel.
Dr.Bousfield was born in Tipton,Missouri to Willard Hayman Bousfield,
a barber and businessman,and Cornelia Catherine Gilbert Bousfield.The family moved to Kansas City,Missouri,and after high school Midian graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 with a bachelor degree of arts degree.He then entered medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago where he earned an M.D. in 1909.The following year Dr.Bousfield began working as an intern at Howard University's Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C. and then worked briefly in Kansas City.
In 1919 Dr.Bousfield left the union to become one of the founders Liberty Life Insurance Company headquartered in Chicago.Dr.Bousfield was the medical director and later president of Liberty Life.In 1929 he helped engineer the merger of Liberty Life and two other African-American insurance companies,Supreme Life of Columbus,Ohio and Northeastern Life of Newark,New Jersey.Dr.Bousfield became the vice president and medical director of the combined firm,Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company.
Dr.Bousfield spent much of the remainder of his career developing and improving health care and medical training opportunities for African-Americans.As director of Negro Health Division for the Julius Rosenwald
Fund,he helped finance the education of numerous future African-American physicians and nurses.
Dr.Bosfield also was responsible for developing the Infantile Paralysis Unit at Tuskegee University and a similar facility at Provident Hospital in Chicago.
From 1933-1934 he was president of the National Medical Association (NMA),an organization of African-American physicians across the nation.In 1939 Dr.Bousfield was appointed the first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Education.
Three years later in 1942 Dr.Bousfield was selected to command the U.S. Army's Station Hospital,all-African-American hospital in Fort Huachuca,Arizona.The hospital served the 14,000 African American women and men stationed at the fort in training for combat in World War II.Dr.Bousfield earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and retired in 1945 as the Medical Corp's first African-American colonel.
Dr.Bousfield was born in Tipton,Missouri to Willard Hayman Bousfield,
a barber and businessman,and Cornelia Catherine Gilbert Bousfield.The family moved to Kansas City,Missouri,and after high school Midian graduated from the University of Kansas in 1907 with a bachelor degree of arts degree.He then entered medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago where he earned an M.D. in 1909.The following year Dr.Bousfield began working as an intern at Howard University's Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C. and then worked briefly in Kansas City.
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