Independent Medical College (Chicago, Illinois)

The Independent Medical College was a Chicago, Illinois-based scholastic enterprise (or diploma mill), organised by James Armstrong, J. H. Randall, Thomas Armstrong, and Charles M. Hovey and chartered on 20 October 1896, and in operations until 1899 when their charter was revoked by the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Armstrong had also formerly operated the Illinois Health University, that institution having been shuttered in April 1897 after its charter was similarly revoked. Undeterred by their latest charter revocation, the group immediately relaunched their diploma sales machine under the new names of the Metropolitan Medical College and Scientific Medical College; however, these latter two operations were themselves brought to an end by the arrests of Armstrong and his associates on charges of using the mails to defraud.

Diploma Holders

 * Richard Metcalfe
 * Owen E. Ford
 * Franz Grossman
 * Max Rubin
 * Joseph Weiss
 * Anton Jedlicka
 * Alvis Semerak
 * E. Ward Mackey
 * Anna M. Melville
 * Claude F. Ray
 * Agnes R. Sommerville
 * Richard St. Benno
 * Stewart Slocum
 * T. T. Davis
 * David Rosenfield
 * Louis Rosenswery
 * George S. Malone
 * William H. Malone
 * George F. Childs
 * Michael Cohn
 * Henry Russell
 * W. H. C. Wallace
 * Fred Yonkers
 * Adolph Grinstein
 * W. H. Brown
 * George F. Wollgart
 * John Diepolder
 * H. Warner Newby, founder of Twentieth Century Physio-Medical College (Guthrie, Okla.)
 * S. W. Staad
 * Dinshah P. Ghadiali, founder of Spectro-Chrome Institute (Malaga, NJ)