Michael Hoke was a leading orthopedic surgeon

Orthopedic surgery

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 who pioneered the advance of the science for disabled children throughout the United States

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The son of American Civil War

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 Maj. Gen.

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 Robert F. Hoke, Michael Hoke was born in Raleigh, North Carolina

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. He was a nephew of Robert Van Wyck

Robert Anderson Van Wyck

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, the first Mayor of New York City

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 after the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898.

He was involved in the founding of the first Scottish Rite Children's Hospital

Old Scottish Rite Hospital

Founded as the Scottish Rite Convalescent Home for Crippled Children, the Old Scottish Rite Hospital served indigent children, either crippled, or recovering from surgery at Piedmont Hospital or Wesley Memorial Hospital . Michael Hoke, M.D., was named the first Medical Director...

 in Decatur, Georgia

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. He served as one of five orthopedic consultants in the development of Shriners

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' Children's Hospitals across the United States. He served on the Alfred I. DuPont Institute for Crippled Children

Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

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 in Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware

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In 1931, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Hoke as the Medical Director of the Institution for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in Warm Springs, Georgia

Warm Springs, Georgia

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