Editing George Whipple (section)

==Early life==
Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in [[Ashland, New Hampshire]].<ref name=":0" /> Ashley Cooper Whipple was a physician, and his father (George's paternal grandfather) was a physician and President of the New Hampshire Medical Society.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/4961/chapter/20#372|title=George Hoyt Whipple {{!}} Biographical Memoirs V.66|publisher=The National Academies Press|language=en|doi=10.17226/4961|year=1995|isbn=978-0-309-05237-5|last1=Miller|first1=Leon L.}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/571266|title=George Hoyt Whipple and his friends; The life story of a Nobel Prize pathologist|last=Corner|first=George W.|journal=Archives of Internal Medicine|publisher=Lippincott|year=1983|volume=115|issue=3|pages=363–364|location=Philadelphia|doi=10.1001/archinte.1965.03860150107025}}</ref> Whipple's father died from [[pneumonia]] or [[typhoid fever]] when George was just shy of two years old.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> His maternal grandfather also died when Whipple was two years old, and his paternal grandfather died a year later.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Whipple|first=George Hoyt|date=1959|title=Autobiographical Sketch|journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine|volume=2|issue=3|pages=253–289|doi=10.1353/pbm.1959.0003|pmid=13645198|s2cid=45464654|issn=1529-8795}}</ref> This left Whipple to be raised by his mother, Frances, and grandmother, Frances Moody Hoyt, who impressed on him the value of hard work and education.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />

Whipple attended [[Phillips Academy|Andover]] prep school and began attending [[Yale University]] as an undergraduate in 1896, earning A.B. degree in 1900.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> During these years, he developed as an outdoorsman, an affinity he would hold lifelong.<ref name=":2" /> He wrote in his autobiography about growing up in a lake district, "I feel very fortunate that I grew up in the country...I became interested in wild life and camping, also hiking, snowshoeing, skating, bob sledding, canoeing, fishing, hunting—all this was an essential part of my life".<ref name=":4" /> He even credited his love for the outdoors as a contributor to his successes in work, study, and teaching.<ref name=":4" /> In the summers of prep school and undergrad, he worked at a drugstore and at [[Squam Lake]] and [[Lake Winnipesaukee]] in New Hampshire providing help and ferry services to the tourists and campers.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /> Of his summer experiences, Whipple said, "I sometimes think I learned as much during the summer work periods as during the school terms."<ref name=":4" />