Dr. Kirby Howlett with sons, Joseph and Kirby, III
Born: August 22, 1904
Died: September 8, 1974
Married: Helen Potter Lewis, in St. Luke's Church, Saranac Lake. Reception at the home of Dr. Warriner Woodruff, a good friend, on Old Military Road.
Children: Kirby S. Howlett III (died Feb. 10, 1996) & Joseph Lewis Howlett (died July 31, 2015)
Dr. Kirby S. Howlett Jr. contracted Tuberculosis while a medical student at Vanderbilt University and cured at home, his father being a doctor. His sister Maxie remembered the household boiling the dishes. After earning his MD, Dr. Howlett decided to specialize in the curing of TB. After three years as an intern and Assistant Resident Physician at Trudeau Sanatorium, he went to Laurel Heights State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Shelton, Connecticut in 1935. After being a Senior Physician from 1936 to 1943 Dr. Howlett became Assistant Superintendent at Laurel Heights until 1954. In the mid 1940's, Laurel Heights was chosen as one of the country's TB hospitals to test the new antibiotic Streptomycin with some success. In 1954, Dr. Howlett became Superintendent and Medical Director of Laurel Heights until his retirement in 1967. During his long tenure at Laurel Heights, he was Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Howlett was a long time member of the American Trudeau Society and became the president of that organization from 1949-1950. His papers are in a library at Yale University.
Dr. Howlett's residence at Laurel Heights
