Moses Housepian

Moses Minas Housepian was a Syrian-born Armenian-American physician and humanitarian aid worker.

Biography

Moses Minas Housepian was born in 1876 in Kessab, Cilicia, Ottoman Empire. He escaped the Hamidian massacres in his youth. He graduated from Long Island College Hospital in 1905.
He later headed a humanitarian medical mission in Russian Armenia from 1916 to 1918 treating refugees from the Armenian genocide. He is credited with stopping the spread of a typhus epidemic and was known as the "Angel of Mercy", and as "Dr. Purgich".
Housepian was active in the Armenian [Democratic Liberal Party], whose chapter in New York City was posthumously named for him. His wife, Makrouhie Housepian, was active in the Armenian General Benevolent Union and other Armenian causes. Moses and Makrouhie Housepian were the parents of Marjorie Housepian Dobkin and Edgar Housepian.
Housepian died on December 11, 1952, in New York City.