The birth certificate attached immediately below (which I own and have in my personal possession) was issued on August 5, 1937 by the Health Department of the City of Orange (in New Jersey):
The document states that Donald David Muchmore was born on July 31, 1937 in the City of Orange in the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey at the Orange Memorial Hospital.
It appears that, as of some point in the year 2004, Orange Memorial Hospital is no longer a functioning hospital:
The hospital does not appear, from what I’ve read online, to have moved to a different location. The hospital is closed, forever.
The building is probably no longer physically standing and if it is then it is probably slotted for demolition to make way for living units for…’mixed income’ families.
At the foot of this report please find comparison photographs of the Orange Memorial Hospital from the years 1907 (black and white) and 2007 (color).
Featured in the picture immediately below is a glass case wall display which once neatly housed hospital-related photographs, documents and newspaper articles.
How could the hospital staff or admin leave behind these photographs and documents? Did they also leave behind birth certificates of, among other persons, future US Presidents?
Some somewhat interesting elements and aspects of Donald David Muchmore’s 1937 certificate of birth are noted below:
1. The document was issued by a city health department (i.e., Health Department of the City of Orange) as opposed to a state health department.
2. The document was filled out using a typewriter.
3. The document requests and provides the residence of the both the father – Eugene Russel Muchmore (563 Thomas St., Orange, N.J.) and the mother – Marie Mildred McMane (563 Thomas St., Orange, N.J.). The father’s occupation is listed as “Painter” and the mother’s occupation is listed as “Housewife”.
4. The documents contains a segment which states, “What preventive for Ophthalmia Neonatorum was used?” Answer was listed as: Argyrol 25%. (Ophthalmia Neonatorum is probably more commonly known as Neonatal Conjunctivitis which is a form of conjunctivitis contracted by newborns during delivery.)
5. The document contains an embossed seal (lower left hand corner of document) from the Registrar of Vital Statistics, W. M. Brien who is also a medical doctor. The document also contains the signature (which may, possibly?, be a stamped-signature) of W. M. Brien.
6. The document provides the Name of Attendant (doctor) who’s name is listed as Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller.
Dr. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Farris Loughmiller died September 22, 1959 at his home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma following a heart attack. He had lived in Oklahoma City all his life except one year when he interned at Orange Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and six years 1938-1944 as a flight surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Dr. James Oyunga William Ang’awa, who delivered baby Barack Hussein Obama II, worked for four (4) years at the Port Reitz Chest Hospital in Mombasa Kenya until some point in 1961 (sometime before May 18, 1961) when he transferred to the South Hill Extension of the King George VI Hospital in Nairobi Kenya (see May 18, 1961. University of Notre Dame Document Delivery (11.10.2009). East Africa and Rhodesia. Volume 37, page 995). At some point within the year 1961 Dr. James Oyunga William Ang’awa delivered baby Barack Hussein Obama II at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa.
Both doctors appear to have worked for relatively short periods of time at hospitals (i.e., Orange Memorial Hospital and Coast Province General Hospital) which, other than on birth certificates in which these doctors’ names are listed as attending doctors, left no record or references (no records or references that can be found online) of their employment at the said hospitals.
The only online reference of Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller having ever worked at Orange Memorial Hospital in New Jersey is a gravestone and cursory memorial at Findagrave.com:
Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller “was a 1930 graduate of Central Highschool, and a 1933 graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He earned his BS and MD degrees from OU in 1937. He specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat work. A member of the American Board of Ophthalmology [branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eye] and Otolaryngology [medical specialty concerned especially with the ear, nose, and throat (head and neck)], the Osler Medical Society, the Optimist Club and the Phi Kappa Psi.”
Skeptics have indicated that Dr. James Oyunga William Ang’awa was a tuberculosis doctor and, in being a tuberculosis doctor, he wouldn’t have been delivering babies.
If the skeptics are correct then why did Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller (a doctor who “specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat work”) deliver baby boy Donald David Muchmore?
If the skeptics are correct then why are there no online references and records, aside from a Gravestone.com memorial created in January 2009 (approximately 50 years after his death and 72 years after he worked at Orange Memorial Hospital), of Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller working at Orange Memorial Hospital in New Jersey?
One last captivating and thought-provoking question:
What did Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller do from the year 1944 thru 1959? He was born in December 1912 so in the year 1944 he would have been 31 or 32 years of age. It doesn’t seem like a doctor would retire at age 32. He died at 46 years of age (almost 47). What did Dr. Robert F. Loughmiller do from age 32 to 46?
Answer:
A guess is that he suffered from a war injury (WWII) and could no longer work. However, I suspect that we will never know because not everything is on the internet.
Here are the final photographs (Orange Memorial Hospital) of today’s report:
Sometimes after publishing a report, here at the WOBIK blog, containing identity documents of the deceased such as passports, birth certificates, military records and suchlike, I am subsequently contacted by surviving family and sometimes friends.
Typically the surviving family (or friends) are delighted and thrilled to read about their family here on the WOBIK blog.
At request of such surviving family and friends I will turn over, to them, (by and through postal mail or FedEx) any or all passports, birth certificates, military records and suchlike.
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