Hiram Winnett Orr

(1877-1956) lived in Lincoln and Omaha. Orthopedic surgeon, author, pioneered during World War I the treatment of bone fractures, infection of the bone, and wounds by use of early splinting, plaster-of-Paris casts to immobilize these injuries, drainage, time for the body's natural healing processes, and sometimes pin fixation; authored several books and hundreds of articles and pamphlets to make known the "Orr method" in civilian as well as military life; credited with formulating legislation in 1905 to establish the Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital, at the time only the third such facility to provide state care for handicapped children in the nation; recipient of numerous awards and honors. Consult Current Biography (1941) 638-639 and Harper's Magazine, March 1943, pp. 380-387 and Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons obituary, Vol 42 (1957) 118-121 and Dictionary of Medical Biography, Vol 2 (Greenwood Press, 1984) 564-565 and American National Biography, Vol 16 (1999) 767-768.

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