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===Early life=== Weller van Hook was born 14 May 1862 in Greenville, Indiana, son of William Russell van Hook (b 1837) and Phebe Matilda "Tillie" Weller (1839-1889). He attended the University of Michigan, receiving his B.A. in 1884. He then went to Chicago, where he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons (later re-named the Division of Medicine at the University of Illinois) and graduated in 1885. He interned at the Cook County Hospital from July 1885 to Jan 1887. He began practice in 1887. He married Anna Charles Whaley of Saint Louis, Missouri, also a physician, on 16 Jun 1892.[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vanhook99&id=I03933][http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf] He was in 1897 appointed the third Chairman in Surgery at Northwestern Medical School.[http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/depts/urology/history.html] He became a very well-known surgeon and is called "one of the three top surgeons of this era". The surgical procedure Ureteroureterostomy, which is end-to-end [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anastomosis anastomosis] of the two portions of a transected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ureter ureter]; is also called ureteroureteral anastomosis or the [[Weller van Hook|van Hook]] operation, named after Weller van Hook.
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