Dr. George Simmons dominates the American Medical…

Dr. George Simmons dominates the American Medical Association by 1899.

Practicing medicine in Lincoln, Nebraska, Simmons come to Chicago when he is elected editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association in this year.

The Chicago Tribune reports that several respected physicians—including Chicago physician Bayard Holmes—had been considered candidates for the position, but many of them were unwilling to work for the journal on a full-time basis.

During Simmons' twenty-five-year term as editor-in-chief and general secretary, the number of JAMA subscribers will increase from one thousand to eighty thousand.

Simmons was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, then moved to Lincoln when he was eighteen.

After studying at the University of Nebraska, Simmons graduated from Hahnemann Medical College.

Hahnemann was a homeopathic program at the time; Simmons later rejected homeopathy.

He subsequently graduated from Rush Medical College.

He had been secretary of the state medical society in Nebraska in the late 1890s.