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nation for a surgeon in the regular army; but as the war was evidently drawing to a elose, he decided not to accept a commission for that position. In April, 1864, he established the first hospital for colored troops at Knoxville, Tennessee, under Medical Director Curtiss. After putting it in nice running order he was ordered to establish a hospital at Greenville, Tennessee, the latter part of the same month. In the early part of June following he was or- dered, in company with Dr. Kitchen, to estab- lish a field hospital for white men at Knoxville, Tennessee, with 1,500 beds, it being the largest hospital ever established in that part of the country. Soon after Lee's surrender Dr. Wise resigned and returned home.
After traveling extensively through the South he opened an office for the practice of his pro- fession in San Antonio, Texas. At the end of a year he moved to Monterey, Mexico, and re- mained there until 1872, when he came to Los Angeles, and has ever since carried on a large and Incrative professional business, except one year, 1881, which he spent in Europe, for the proseen- tion of liis medical studies, thus completing in 1881 the course he had mapped ont when a lad of fourteen, plowing in the field. He had grad- uated from the same medical college in America, and the same one in Europe, as the physician previously mentioned in this sketch, who was the unconseious source of the youthful plow boy's in- spiration. The resolution heroically made thirty years before had been faithfully carried out with un wavering fidelity, and the goal reached, though the road had been a long one and beset with many difficulties. By this dauntless perseverance and concentration of effort to master his profession Dr. Wise has not only risen to the front rank ns surgeon of this coast, but he has achieved an ample fortune solely from his professional labors. The example and success of this poor, illiterate orphan boy is well worthy the emu- lation of the youths of to-day, none of whom have greater obstacles to surmount.
Dr. Wise has been twice married. His first wife was formerly Miss Stoney, of San Antonio,
Texas, who bore him one child, Miss Alice Wise, now a young lady. His present wife is the daughter of H. E. Makinney, a self-made man and a prominent lawyer of Santa Cruz County, California, and many years clerk and treasurer, successively, of that county. Ken- neth D. Wise, Jr., five years of age, is the only child born of this marriage.
M. DOROTHEA LUMMIS, M. D., is a native of Ohio, born in the old city of Chillicothe, No- vember 9, 1858, her parents being Josiah H. and Sarah (Swift) Rhodes. At sixteen years of age she became a B. A. of Portsmouth Female College, afterward taking a two years' course at Madame Emma Seiler's famous Conservatory in l'hiladelphia. In 1884 she graduated at the Boston University School of Medicine with the degree of M. D., and the following fall, resign- ing her position as resident physician of the Boston Conservatory of Musie, removed to Los Angeles, where she - opened an office and has practiced her profession ever since with flatter- ing success.
In 1880 Miss Rhodes was married to Charles F. Lninmis, a journalist, and for several years eity editor of the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Lummis is president of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society, to which position she was elected at the last annual election of the society. She is prominently identified with various charitable organizations, and was chiefly instrumental in reviving the Humane Society of Los Angeles, for the prevention of cruelty to animals; and in organizing the Humane Society of Los Angeles County, for the prevention of cru- elty to children, which was effected January 13, 1886. Through the Doctor's zealous personal interest and labor in this most worthy eause, great good has been accomplished in both de- partments of this humane and benevolent work, producing radical reforms in the treatment of children, and of domestic animals, especially horses in the street-enr service and elsewhere. She is sceretary of the Los Angeles Humane Society.
Dr. Lummis is a lady of cultivated literary
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tastes, and besides being the dramatic critic of the Los Angeles Times for the past year or two, has been a frequent contributor to the columns of the current press.
ELIZABETHI A. FOLLANSBEE, M. D., was born in the State of Maine, and, when four years of age, moved with her parents to Brooklyn, New York. At the age of nine years she went to Europe and spent two years in the schools of France. After a year passed at home she returned and attended school in the city of Paris four years. IIer father, Captain Alonzo Follansbee, having died, her mother removed to Boston, and there Miss Follansbee's literary education was completed under private tutors. Entering the educational field as a teacher, she was preceptress in the Green Mountain Institute for some time; then accepted the position of instructor in IHillsdale Seminary at Mount Clair, New Jersey. In her ardent zeal and close application to school-room work she overtaxed her somewhat delicate phys- ical powers, so impairing her health that she resigned her position in 1873 and came to Cali- fornia. After stopping for a time in San Fran- cisco, she went to Napa City, and again engaged in teaching, and also began the study of medicine.
In 1875 Miss Follansbee entered the medical department of the University of California to attend her first course of lectures, she and Mrs. Dr. Wanzer, of San Francisco, being the first ladies to enter that institution after it had opened its doors to women. At the close of that term Miss Follansbee went East and entered the College of Medicine and Surgery in the Uni- versity of Michigan. After attending the full term, on the eve of examination, she received a telegram from Boston tendering to her the po- sition of intern in the Hospital for Women and Children in that city, if she could come at once. She accepted, and filled the place with fidelity and ability until, wishing to further pursne her medical studies, she left to take a course in the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she graduated with high honors in 1877, having won the $50 prize for best essay of her graduating class, her subject 15
being, " Review of Medical Progress." The award was made by the faculty at the recom- mendation of Prof. Henry Hartshorn, of the University of Pennsylvania, sitting as critic. Ilaving supplemented her regular course with a special course on pathological anatomy, and an extra course of lectures in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Follansbee returned to the Pacific Coast and opened an office in San Francisco. She soon obtained a fine practice, and being elected physician to the Pacific Dispensary Hospital for women and children, assumed its duties in ad- dition to her private practice. This double labor proved too great for her powers of endur- ance and she was prostrated with a severe attack of pneumonia, which compelled her to resign her connection with the hospital, much to the expressed regret of the medical board.
Being advised to seek a milder climate than that of the Pacific metropolis, she spent a few months in Napa, but, finding that climate also too harsh for her delicate organism, she caine, in February, 1883, to Los Angeles. As her returning health permitted she resumed the practice of medicine, and has for years enjoyed a large and prosperous business, contining her practice almost exclusively to her own sex and to children.
Dr. Follansbee occupies a high rank in her profession, and is an honored member of the Los Angeles County Medical Society, and the Cali- fornia State Medical Society. She has been from the opening of that growing aud prosper- ous institution, and is now, professor of diseases of children in the College of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She is thoroughly in love with her profession, and is an enthusiastic student and energetic prac- titioner. Thoroughness being a ruling trait in her character, she enters upon her undertakings with a zeal and will which insure success. Nul- merous flattering testimonials from high educa- tional anthorities evidence her superiority as a teacher. Dr. Follansbee is a fine French scholar, a lady of broad culture and æsthetic refinement, whom to know is to esteem and admire.
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B. HOMER FAIRCHILD, M. D., is a native of New York, born in 1828. Ilis father, John H. Fairchild, was a native of Canada, where he married Miss Elizabeth Hager. He was a civil engineer by profession. In his youth the sub- ject of this sketch accompanied his parents to Michigan and located in Detroit, where he was reared and educated, and entered upon the study of medicine. In 1855 his failing health eom- pelled an abandonment of his medical studies, and he sought a restoration of health in Cali- fornia. Upon his arrival in the State, he joined his brother, John B. Fairchild, and for several years was engaged in stock-raising and dealing in live-stock, in Los Angeles County, and also driving herds of cattle from that county, which they sold in the mining counties of the North. Upon Dr. Fairchild's return to Michigan he re- simed his medical studies. Early in 1864 he entered the United States Naval service, and was assigned to duty in the Mississippi squadron as surgeon's steward in charge of the United States steamer Undine, he having full charge ef the Undine from the time she was put in commission till she was captured and sn k by the rebels. He then resigned and completed his medical studies in the medical department of the University of Michigan, after which he entered upon the practice of his profession. He was also engaged in agricultural pursuits and other enterprises in Michigan until 1880. In that year he returned to Los Angeles County and took up his residence in Pomona, and en- gaged in the practice of medicine until 1886. Ile then purchased a tract of wild and unculti- vated land located north of Claremont, now " Fairview Ranch." The Doctor's lands are well adapted to fruit culture, with plenty of water for irrigation from the San Antonio Cañon. Ile was at one time one of the largest honey producers in Los Angeles County. One of the most noticeable features of his improve- ments while clearing his land is the miles of massive stone division walls which he is erect- ing. These walls, the stone for which is obtained in clearing the land, are four feet at
the base and five feet in height, and of symmet- rical proportions and finish. "Fairview Hall" is an ideal Southern ranch residence. It com- mands a magnificent view of the San José Valley, and with its beautiful stream of water it affords a desirable home. The substantial farm build- ings display his creditable enterprise. The Doctor lias other landed property and business interests, among which is a marble quarry in San Bernardino County, that he is developing. He is also the owner of business and residence property in Pomona. Dr. Fairchild has for many years been closely identified with the in- terests and development of Pomona and the San José Valley, and is well and favorably known in the community. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Master Mason and a Knight Templar. In political matters he is a Republican.
In 1876 Dr. Fairchild was united in marriage with Mrs. Sarah A. (Stowell) Aspinall, of De- troit, Michigan, who has more than a local reputation for her lavish hospitality to all callers at " Fairview Hall."
JOHN T. STEWART, M. D., is ranked among the representative professional men of Southern California. Ile is a native of Harrison County, Kentucky, dating his birth in 1850. His father, William II. Stewart, was a native of Indiana, who, in his young manhood, located in the county of Ilarrison, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. The Doctor's mother was nee Eliza- beth A. Webb, a native of Virginia. The sub- ject of this sketch was reared in his native county, receiving the advantages of an academ- ical education until eighteen years of age. Ile then commenced his medical studies under a prominent physician of Harrison County, and in 1870 entered the Cincinnati College of Medi- cine and Surgery. After graduating at that institution, in 1873, he entered upon a course of studies and lectures at the Jefferson College, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later, in 1878-'79, engaged upon a special course of study in surgery at the Bellevue Hospital in New
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York. The Doctor spent many years in the study of his chosen profession, in the best schools in the United States, after which he re- turned to Harrison County and engaged in the active practice of his profession, which he suc- cessfully condueted until 1887. In that year Dr. Stewart came to California and soon after his arrival located at Monrovia, Los Angeles County. He was one of the first physicians who commenced practice in that city, and his skill and talents soon secured him a large and lucra- tive practice and gained him the respect and esteem of the community. Dr. Stewart takes a deep interest in the growth and prosperity of Monrovia. He is a member of the board of health of that city and also a member of the board of trustees. In political matters he is Democratic. He is a member of Mullen Lodge, F. & A. M., of Berry, Kentucky; and also of the Monrovia Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society and also of several local societies.
In 1881 Dr. Stewart was united in marriage with Miss Sue Martin, a native of Kentucky. Mrs. Stewart's parents are Mortimer D. and Zerilda (Sellars) Martin, natives of Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Stewart have one child: Charles Mortimer.
DR. THOMAS RIGG, Pasadena, was born in 1814, in England, and his early life was spent in a chemical laboratory. In 1840 he came to Philadelphia and engaged in chemical and dye- ing business, and in the meantime studied inedi- cine. In 1853 he moved to Johnson County, Iowa, and there engaged in farming and the practice of medicine. In 1882 the Doctor came to. California and settled in Pasadena, since which time he has led a quiet and retired lite. Being a lover of scientific pursuits, he has a high order of pleasure which he would not exchange for any other. There is no field of mental activity so vast and so varied as that of nature, and happy is he who lias inherited a disposition so norinal and a capacity so great as to take his supreme delight in rambling through it.
Dr. Rigg has kept a correct account of the
temperature and rainfall in his locality for several years. The tables he has thns compiled are reliable and have been extensively published. Below is his report for 1888:
TEMPERATURE.
Min.
Max.
7 a. m. 2 p. m.
9 p. m.
Mean
January.
.39.2
57.3
40.8
57.0
45.1
47.2
February.
.44.2
63.5
46.0
63.3
50.2
52.1
March
44.6
62.3
43.6
62 0
51.2
53.2
April
.51.3
73.9
58.5
72.1
58.0
61.7
May
.51.1
70.6
55.8
69.8
55.8
59.2
June ..
.55.0
:0.4
63.0
78.7
61.9
66.4
July
.57.7
87.7
67.1
85.8
66.2
71.3
August
.57.4
89.1
65.4
87.4
66 6
71.5
September.
.61.2
89.9
69.7
88.3
68.1
73.5
October
.54.0
78.2
59.7
77.4
60,6
64.6
November.
.48.8
68.7
53.1
68.5
54.4
58.6
December ..
.45.9
64.8
49.0
64.5
52.0
54.4
Mean of year .. 50.8
73.8
52.4
72.8
57.5
61.1
HUMIDITY.
7 a. m.
2 p. m.
9 p. m.
Mean
January .
74.9
49.6
73.5
66.0
February
.78.3
55.5
77.5
70.5
March.
.75.8
61.1
83.5
73.5
April.
.73.3
52.7
76.4
67.5
May
81.2
54.9
81.8
72.6
June
.71.6
46.8
74.3
64.2
July
.67.4
39.5
71.5
59.5
August.
.70.9
38.3
72.8
60.7
September
67.6
40.3
74.4
60.3
October
74.1
49.0
79.0
67.1
November
73.4
52.9
79.3
68.5
December
76.2
51.6
73.4
66.4
Mean of year
73.7
49.3
76.4
66.4
RAINFALL IN INCHES.
January
7.62
July.
.00
February
1.54
August
.00
March.
5.13
September
.00
April.
.21
October.
.09
May.
.03
November
5.81
June
.00
December
6.93
Total.
27.36
H. G. CATES, M. D., of Santa Monica, was born in Vassalboro, Maine, in May, 1863, and is the son of Dr. C. B. Cates, who was for many years a practicing physician, and who died in Santa Monica about one year ago. The subject of this biographical notice was educated at Colby University in Waterville, Maine, where he gradutated in the year 1883, being the youngest member of the class, and received the degree of A. B. After finishing his literary education he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, as a student of medicine, entered the hos- pital college. At this college he graduated in 1887. After attending the lectures there he
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came to California and legan practicing the " healing art " in the "city by the sea" and the country surrounding. It has taken but a short time to show the people that he possesses both knowledge and skill as a physician and surgeon. As an enterprisng business man he is ranked among the first. The " Cates's Block" in Santa Monica, at the corner of Third street and Utah avenue, is a credit to the city, and stands as a monument to its enterprising and public-spirited builder. The structure is a fine brick building 50 x 68 feet, and two stories high. Two large commodious store rooms are in the first story, and the second is nicely finished up for offices, in one of which the Doctor may be found when not professionally engaged.
Mrs. Cates was formerly Miss Ella Van Every. Their residence is on the corner of Fourth street and Arizona avenne. Dr. Cates is yet a very young man, and has before him the possibilities of a very useful life. As a citizen he stands well in the community, and as a physician, has abilities which are recognized by all.
DR. CARROLL KENDRICK, M. A., was born December 29, 1815, on Bigby Creek, eighteen miles from Columbia, Tennessee. When he was about four years old his parents moved from Tennessee to Landerdale County, Alabama, where he grew to manhood. His parents were honest, intelligent and industrious, and his mother was especially pious. In the family there were nine girls and four boys. His brother, Allen Kendrick, was a brilliant and able preacher of the gospel, and died in Tennessee in 1859. Carroll Kendrick was early and deeply impressed that he ought to become a Christian. After reading the Scriptures for several years, lie was convinced of what he should do to be saved, and. he met his brother, then an active evangelist, forty miles away, and was by him immersed "for the remission of sins." Having become a Christian, he felt it to be his duty to preach. At this time he had the care of his mother and four sisters; and no schools, no church-meetings, no papers, and no books except the Bible. Al-
most two years passed in this way; then he went alone about 120 miles, and among strangers, except his sister and her husband, he made the experiment, speaking several times. In the meantime he had moved his mother and sisters to West Tennessee, and with his brother secured a home. Strong in faith and full of zeal, he, with W. II. Rutherford, spent some four months in going over West Tennessee, preaching in private houses, school-houses, etc., to many or to few-generally to few-with no assurance of support from any man, but they had good meet- ings, and brought many within the fold. One year he spent near Mooresville, Alabama, and went eight miles to recite his Latin and Greek. In the summer of 1836 he went alone, on horse- back, about 300 miles, to attend the first State meeting he had ever heard of. It was at Har- rodeburg, Kentucky. At that time he was en- couraged to enter Bacon College, situated there, and borrowed the money to pay his tuition and board. While at college he preached at Dan- ville, Perryville, Lawrenceburg and other places, receiving enough to pay his indebtedness.
Dr. Kendrick was married October 15, 1840, to Mary Wade Forbes. Soon after leaving college he showed great ability in a debate at Stanford, Kentucky, with Rev. N. L. Rice, a talented pedobaptist minister. The years 1845- '46 he spent with the First Church in Louisville, and while in that place he founded Second Church, on Hancock street, and edited and pub- lished the Christian Journal. From there he moved to Harrodsburg, and published the Ec- clesiastical Reform. In 1851 he moved to Texas, where he spent nearly twenty-seven years. In the meantime the honorary degree of M. A. had been conferred upon him by Franklin Col- lege, and he held also his medical diploma. At that time money was scarce in Texas, and he was compelled to practice medicine for a living. In 1877 he came to Oakland, California, for the benefit of his own health as well as that of his wife. After living in Oakland three years, in 1880 he moved to Downey, Los Angeles County. In 1883 Mrs. Kendrick died, her nine
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children all being present at the time of her death.
The subject of this sketch has been practically a missionary man, and has given nearly fifty- two years to the work. Physically, he knows not what fear for personal safety is. Morally, he is a hero. His success in money-making shows what he might have done in this line if he liad given attention to it.
Dr. J. Carroll Kendrick, his son, now a prac- ticing physician and surgeon in Downey, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1845. His literary education was received at Lexington, and his professional and medical education at Cin- cinnati and the medical department of the University of Lonisville, graduating at the for- mer institution in 1871. He practiced first in Texas, then in Chicago, after which he came to California. He continned his practice four years in Oakland, and in 1882 came to Downey, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. A brother of his, Joseph Judson Kendrick, M. D., was professor in the California Medical College at Oakland for a number of years, and died while in his prime, a physician in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. J. Carroll Kendrick was married in 1878 to Miss Josie Ford, the dangliter of Judge Spen- cer Ford, of Texas. They have an interesting family of five children: Josie, Albert Carroll and Pattie Leigh (twins), Julien Carroll, Jr., and Benjamin Carroll, Jr. The Doctor lives in his pleasant home at No. 1001 College avenue, Downey, where, surrounded by his family and friends, he extracts, perhaps, as much of life's trne pleasures as any mnan living.
DR. EDWIN LOVELLE BURDICK, General Su- perintendent and Resident Physician of the Los Angeles County Home, is a native of Cortland County, New York. His father, V. M. Bur- dick, was a farmer, and moved *o Illinois when the Doctor was only five years old, and engaged in farming near Elgin. The subject of this sketch received his literary education at Al- bion, Wisconsin. His professional education was received at Rush Medical College in Chi-
cago, College of Physicians and Surgeons in Kansas City, and also at Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue College in New York City, After completing his education he practiced four years at Valley Falls, Kansas, and in 1875 came to California for his health. Here he re- mained four years and then went to Arizona and was appointed county physician, which position he held eight years. While there the Doctor served as county treasurer for Mohave County one term, and was member of the Ter- ritorial Council one term.
In the year 1872, while in Wisconsin, he married Miss Mary L. Potter, of Janesville, that State. In 1887 the Doctor located in Los Angeles County. He is the owner of valuable property in different parts of the county, but at present his time and attention are devoted to his duties in the office at the Los Angeles County Home. The grounds of this institution contain 120 acres, and the buildings accommo- date about 250 persons. The grounds are nul- der the management of a steward, and the inmates who are able to, work. In the near future a new house will be erected, at a cost of $8,000, as a residence for the superintendent and his family.
DR. A. MCFARLAND, physician and surgeon at Compton, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1846, and is the son of Andrew McFarland, who was a surgeon in the British army, and a graduate of Edinburgh, Scotland. At the age of six years he was sent north on a whaling expedition and was out fonr and a half years. Within that period his father had come to America and was demonstrator of anatomy in Jefferson College, Philadelphia. He sent back to Ireland for his son, who, in 1857, joined the father in the new world, and entered school at Burlington, New Jersey. In 1861 he entered the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry, under General Palmer, and was promoted to the rank of Ser- geant, serving until the close of the war. He then went to Italy and served in the Papal army for seventeen months. While there he was Captain and commanded 100 men from the
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base of the Pyrences. During 1869 and 1870 he was connected with the Insane Asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois. Here, also, he received his literary education, at the Illinois Soldiers' College. In 1872 he graduated at Rush Medi- cal College, Chicago, after which he began the practice of medicine at Rockport, the same State. At the latter place he was appointed by the Government to take charge of three tribes of Indians in Kansas. From there, in 1874, he came to Compton, California, and established himself in his profession, working up an im- mense practice. In 1884 he was coroner of Los Angeles County; was also professor in the Los Angeles Medical College, having charge of the department treating of diseases of the mind and nervous system.
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