Clarence Phillips Connell

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Title

Clarence Phillips Connell

Subject

VUMC History, Vanderbilt Alumni, Health Administration

Description

Photographic portrait of Clarence Phillips Connell. Clarence Phillips Connell was a Nashville native who graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in 1906. He became Superintendent of Parks in Nashville, during which time he supervised the restoration of the replica of the Parthenon in Centennial Park. Connell was appointed Superintendent of the new Vanderbilt University Hospital, which opened in 1925. He held this position until his retirement in 1949. Connell was also an award-winning horticulturalist and conducted much research in that field. He received the Dykes Memorial Medal for his hybridization of the iris "Dauntless" in 1929. He was also very active in hybridizing daffodils. Mr. Connell died at his farm in Goodlestsville in 1959.

Creator

Anonymous

Source

Vanderbilt University History of Medicine Collections Photographic Archive

Date

1930 (circa)

Rights

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Type

Still Image

Identifier

421

Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photographic print

Physical Dimensions

4.5 in. x 6 .75 in.

Contribution Form

Online Submission

No

Collection

VUMC People

Citation

Anonymous, “Clarence Phillips Connell,” VUMC Through Time: A Photographic Archive, accessed October 3, 2023, https://eblthroughtime.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/1987.

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