I am trying to find out more information about the connection of
Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell and the National Institute of health in
Bethesda, MD.

Hello stephenh-ga:

From the NIH web page:
http://www.training.nih.gov/clinical/nihhistory.asp

What was to become the National Institutes of Health started modestly
in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of
Stapleton on Staten Island, New York, in August, 1887. ... In 1891,
after 4 years of intensive investigation into the origin and causes of
such epidemic iseases as cholera, diphtheria, typhoid, smallpox,
typhus, plague and tuberculosis, the Laboratory of Hygiene needed more
space, was moved to Washington, D.C. and was renamed the Hygienic
Laboratory. ... It moved to Bethesda in 1938. (There doesn't seem to
be a mention of Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell at this web site.)

I haven't found anything about Eugene F. Cordell yet except that he
was born in 1843 and died in 1913; he is supposedly in the Dictionary
of American Medical Biography but I won't be able to get to a copy of
that until Tuesday, Oct. 8. If you have access to a research library
you could look at it yourself, perhaps, or someone else might want to
chime in here. I'll let you know what I find out on Tuesday.

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Request for Answer Clarification by stephenh-ga on 04 Oct 2002 10:28 PDT

I have been trying to find out information about his connection to the
National Institute of Health and his connection to this street for a
very long time.  I am really trying to find out the originality of the
street name which seems to now to be nearly impossible to find.  To
say this on the side would you be interested in working with me to
find the answer of Dr. Cordell and his connection to the street if
that is possible. Please do let me know.  I have been looking for
sometime without any luck of finding the answer

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Clarification of Answer by jab-ga on 04 Oct 2002 12:26 PDT

So your main concern is whether or not the street in Baltimore is
named after Eugene F. Cordell? It should be relatively easy to see if
there is a connection to NIH if his papers are archived somewhere (or
am I all wrong here?) If the street was renamed in 1952, shouldn't
there be a record perhaps in a newspaper? I'll do some poking around
when I go to my research library next week. This looks like a
challenge! I'll look back at some of the history here at google and
see what other leads I could follow up on. I just jumped in thinking
this was a new, not so difficult question.

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Request for Answer Clarification by stephenh-ga on 07 Oct 2002 05:24 PDT

Thank you jab-ga for answering my question.  The street in mention is
NOT in Baltimore but it is in Bethesda, Maryland. A correction from my
previous message I sent out. From other resources it seems as those
that the street name change may have taken place in 1941 but I am
still not convience that is absolutely true. My mind is still open to
all possibilities until the answer can be found. I would agree with
you, that most people would think that this might be an easy question
but I have been searching for this answer for 4 months now. I think
that it is an extremely hard question to get an answer too.  If you
could go to the library and do the research (you mention) I would
really appreciate the effect. If you enjoy challenges, this is a good
one for you. That would be wonderful, and you would get a smile
:),handshake and a wonderful thank you if you could solve my mystery. 
If I can help you by giving you any more information into this for the
research you will be doing for me PLEASE don't hestinate to let me
know.  I hope to hear from you soon

Stephenh-ga

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Clarification of Answer by jab-ga on 09 Oct 2002 05:33 PDT

sorry, stephenh-ga, I struck out. The Dictionary of American Medical
Biography did not mention anything specific to EFC and NIH. There
wasn't any information about Cordell Ave. that I could get when I went
to my research library yesterday. I think the solution is going to be
a researcher in the Bethesa area who can phyically go to the minutes
of the meeting where Cordell Ave. was given its new name, probably in
the city archives or county archives. There is a whole lot of
information that is still only in paper form and it involves some real
old-fashioned leg work. Are you yourself in the Bethesda area? I'm
sorry I could not be of any more help; this is a real challenge but I
just don't think the answer is on the internet. I hope someone can
prove me wrong.

This note to Researcher jab-ga –

Hi and welcome! I know you are new here so are probably not aware that
our customer in this case, stephenh- ga has been tireless in his
pursuit of information on Eugene Cordell. He has approached the
problem from several angles, and many of our researchers have given
him leads in the past.

Maybe you could take a look at his previous questions here –

https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=search&q=stephenh+cordell&qtype=all

And then provide him with something new to help him with his quest for
information. I’m sure he’d appreciate it. If you need some help or
tips, be sure to drop in to the researcher forum. See your newsletter
for info.

And, stephenh-ga, thanks for the repeat business! It’s nice to see a
familiar face around here every now and again. I think you’re going to
be voted our, “MOST RELENTLESS CUSTOMER” for your dogged pursuit of
Eugene Cordell! :-)

I hope we can help you get there.  

-K~

Thanks, knowledge_seeker-ga. There does seem to be a little history
here. I'll see what I can add to the compendium.