An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California. Containing a history of Los Angeles County from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its prospective future and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and also of prominent citizens of to-day, Part 37

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092

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Dr. MeFarland was married October 19, 1872, to Miss Abbie Ballard, of Pittsfield, Illi- nois. Her father, John Ballard, was a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Socially, the Doctor is a Mason in the thirty-second degree, and a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and G. A. R.

DR. I. D. STOCKTON, a physician and surgeon of fifty years' practice, is located in Compton, where he will spend the evening of life in the most healthful atmosphere, and the county where Nature has done her best to make lier creatures happy.

The Doetor is a native of Illinois, born Octo- ber 16, 1815. His father's name was Robert and his mother's Phœbe (Whiteside) Stockton, both being natives of Kentucky, his father of Eng- lish and his mother of Irish origin. Mrs. Stockton was a consin of the celebrated General Whitesides. Her mother was of Scotch parent- age. The Doctor's grandfather was one of the pioneers of Kentucky, and the famous "Stockton's Valley " was named in honor of him. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools of his native connty and Shuntliff College in Illinois. Then he went to the Physiomedical and Sanitarian College at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating at that institution in 1838. He practiced two years in Southern

Illinois under Dr. Pope, and at the expiration of that time he continued practicing alone, re- maining in that part of Illinois for eight years. Leaving there he went to Kansas, where he devoted two years to the practice of his profes- sion, but prior one year in Texas. Then turn- ing his face toward the sunset, he came to Cali- fornia, where he remained for a period of fifteen years, was in Washington Territory one year, and lastly came to Compton. During all this time he was actively engaged in the practice of his ehosen profession.

Dr. Stockton was married in 1840 to Lonisa Spiller, a native of Tennessee. Of this union nineteen children were born, and fifteen are still living. The wife and mother departed this life at Florence in 1883.

Politically the Doctor is a member of the Republican party. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, at the age of sixteen years. Socially he affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, and religionsly, with the Christian Church, being an active and consistent member of the same. He was at one time secretary of the Bible Soei- ety. He is a worthy and honored citizen, re- spected and esteemed by all who know him.

R. A. BRUNSON, M. D., was born in Tennes- see, January 31, 1821, a son of Dr. Robert Brunson, who was for many years a well-known physician in that State. The latter was the oldest of four sons, and his grandfather, also, was a physician, and a Scotchinan by birth. The subject of this sketch, one of a family of five children, was educated at the Jackson Manual Labor Academy; his literary education was re- ceived at Nashville, Tennessee, his medical, at Louisville, Kentucky, and he began the practice of medicine in 1841. Ile was married the same year to Miss Mary J. Johnson, of Arkansas. They had five children, all of whom died when young, except one, and the mother also died. In 1866 he married again, this time Mrs. Ann E. Cryer, the widow of Mr. Cryer and the daughter of Joseph M. Shepperd. Her father was born in Virginia, but reared in Wayne County, Kentucky. He was a merchant in

Very Truly Yours I. Miles Boal

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Fayetteville, Arkansas, till his death, which was caused by yellow fever in 1843. He had two sons and one daughter. His wife's name was Sarah H. Conway. The Conway family was a prominent one in Arkansas. Henry Conway was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was finally stung to deatlı by bees. His grandson, Henry W. Conway, was the first Congressman from Arkansas. He was challenged by Robert Crittenden, his political opponent, to fight a duel, and was killed by him. Mr. Cryer, who was Mrs. Brunson's first husband, was a wealthy cotton planter in Arkansas. His estate was valued at $100,000. He died in 1860, and his widow lost all her property, including a number of slaves, in the war.

Dr. Brunson had built up an extensive prac- tice in Arkansas, and had practically retired from his profession before the war, and was overseeing his large cotton interests when, like many others, he was broken up entirely. and lost everything he had, including his slaves. Not discouraged, however, he came to California, and went to practicing medicine. At Downey and in the vicinity the people soon recognized his superior ability in the " healing art," and it was not long till he bought a small ranch where he and his excellent wife will spend the evening of life.

DR. J. MILLS BOAL is a native of Ohio, and was born at Cincinnati, December 6, 1856. Ilis father, the Rev. John M. Boal, a Presbyterian minister, is also a native of Cincinnati. Was the founder and first pastor of the Third Presby- terian Church of that city. His grandparents were of Scotch-Irish ancestry and among Cin- cinnati's pioneers. In 1859 Rev. John M. Boal removed from Cincinnati to Urbana, Ohio, where for several years he was president of the Urbana Seminary. From there he removed to Wooster, Ohio, for the purpose of educating his children in the University of Wooster. In 1882 he came to California and officiated as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church at Los Angeles until 1886, when he became pastor of the Pres- byterian Church at Etiwanda, California, where

he still remains. Dr. Boal's mother, nee Har- riett J. Hughes, was born at Oxford, Ohio, is the daughter of Richard. Hughes, M. D., and is of Welsh origin and granddaughter of R. Hughes, the first president of Miami University at Oxford.

Dr. Boal attended the Wooster University, after which he took up the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Reynolds, and later he studied with Dr. George Liggett, both of Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College of New York City, with the class of 1884. On the 12th of April of the same year he located in Los Angeles. While Dr. Boal is among the more recent comers it is safe to say that probably no man in the city is more active and prominent in professional and social circles than he. His energy, enterprise and professional skill have promptly placed him in the front rank of the homeopathists of Southern California. Dr. Boal is president of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society; he occupies the finest suite of offices in the city, located in the Bryson-Bonebrake Block, and has an extensive practice. Socially Dr. Boal is a man full of good works, an active co-worker with the Young Men's Christian Association, a ruling elder in the Immanuel Presbyterian Church of this city, a leader in Sunday-school work, and popular among the young people with whom he is so intimately associated.

In 1883 he was married at Jones' Corners, Ohio, to Miss Alma L. White, daughter of William and Sarah (Jones) White. She was born and reared at Jones' Corners, and educated at the University of Wooster. They have one child: Alına.

DR. Il. S. ORME, ex-President of the State Board of Health of California, was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, March 25, 1837. He graduated as A. B. at Oglethorpe University in 1858 and attended his first course of medical lectures at the University of Virginia. He afterward gradnated as M. D. from the medical department of the University of New York, in 1861. In 1868 he came to California, arriving

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at Los Angeles July 4, of that year, and has been actively engaged in the practice of medi- cine here ever since. Dr. Orine has filled many official positions in both medical and Masonic societies during his residence in Los Angeles. He has been president of the Los Angeles County Medical Society, the California State Medical Society; is now a member of the Ameri- can Climatological Association, Medico-Legal Society of New York, American Public Health Association, and has also been vice-president, and is now an active member of the American Medical Association. Of local Masonic bodies, he has been a past officer of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery, and also Commander of Occidental Consistory of Los Angeles A. A. Scottish Rite, Thirty-second De- gree, as well as an officer of the Grand Consis- tory, Thirty second Degree, of the State. Dr. Orme is a Past Grand High Priest of the Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, of California; Past Grand Master of the Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters; Past Grand Commander of Grand Commandery Knights Templar.

Dr. Orme married Mary C. Van de Graaff, in 1873, and he has one son, Hal McAllister, born March 4, 1879. Dr. Orme is a genial, cultured and popular gentleman, a good citizen in all relations in life, whether public or pri- vate; and he is skillful in his profession, in which he takes a genuine pride.

REBECCA LEE DORSEY, a native of Maryland, lost her mother at the age of six years, and her father marrying again, she left the parental roof and lived with a distant relative in York County, Pennsylvania, for about three years; then, at the tender age of nine years, struck out to earn her way in the world among strangers. For a year she worked for an old lady near Port De- posit, Maryland, working in the garden, ped- dling vegetables in the town, etc .; then over a year she worked in a dairy, going to school during the winter, paying her way by labor; next she worked as a servant girl in Philadel- phia, and gradnated at the grammar school; and from fourteen to sixteen years of age she at-

tended Belvidere Seminary. After leaving her father she never received a cent from him, but earned all her expenses! Doing three years' work in two, she graduated at that seminary; then attended Wellesley College three years, most of the time doing menial labor for the other girls in order to earn money to defray her expenses. Having but $25 in money, she entered Boston University for three years, in order to fit herself for the medical profession. Taking care of sick people nights, and borrowing $50, she passed through the first year. During the ensning summer she acted as trained nurse, re- ceiving $20 a week. On graduating, June 6, 1882, she was but $5 in debt. She immediately went to Vienna, Austria, and spent two years in the largest hospital in the world. She entered classes under official instruction where woman had not entered for twelve years, and some of them had never had a woman. She traveled and studied in Europe several years longer, and finally reached Los Angeles, January 23, 1886. Last year her cash practice was 84,989.50. Her father, now sixty-six years of age and wealthy, is still living in Maryland.

CHARLES W. BRYSON was born in Richmond, Virginia; educated at the Missouri State Uni- versity at Columbia; commenced his medical studies in that State, and gradnated in 1882 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keo- kuk, Iowa; practiced four years at Falls City, Nebraska; took a post-graduate course in St. Louis, Missouri, and arrived in Los Angeles September 6, 1886. Ile pays special attention to gynecology.

JOHN L. DAVIS, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, at the University of Cincinnati, in the first class graduated there. In 1880 he received the de- gree of M. D. from the Miami Medical College in that city; then spent a year in the Cincinnati Hospital, which has 6,000 patients, and by com- petitive examination was elected resident physi- cian of the same for a year, and also held other medical situations. Arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1885, he has filled the chair of Ma-

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teria Medica in the University of Southern California two years, and other medical offices. He is also a liberal contributor to the medical press.

WILLIAM D. BABCOCK was born in Evansville, Indiana; graduated at the High School there; studied civil engineering at the La Fayette Col- lege, Easton, Pennsylvania; practiced in the field two years, and graduated in medicine in bis native town in 1878. After practicing and studying alternately, both in this country and in Europe, he came to Los Angeles in June, 1887, where he has been elected secretary of the County Medical Society. In 1884 he received from La Fayette College the degree of Master of Arts.

JOHN B. Woon, born in San Francisco in 1861, a son of Dr. Philip A. Wood, now re- siding near San Diego, was edneated in the Palo Normal School, Kansas; studied medicine with the assistance of his father's partner (his father not then being in active practice), and graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the spring of 1888.

ANDREW E. WHEELER, homeopathic, was born in Vermont in 1854; educated principally in his native State and at Mount Union College, Ohio, and graduated at the Homeopathic Hos- pital College at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1880; prac- ticed five years in Rochester, New York, and in 1885 settled in Los Angeles, where he devotes special attention to obstetrics. He is a mem- ber of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He lost his wife by death about three years after marriage.

J. HARMON, born at Knoxville, Georgia, in 1838, began reading medicine in his native State and graduated in liis chosen profession in the medical department of the University of New York, in 1861; was appointed assistant surgeon in the Confederate army and afterward as a surgeon; and near the close of the war he resigned, spent a short time in New Orleans, and settled in Dallas County, Alabama. In the fall of 1868 he came to Los Angeles, and is

therefore the oldest practitioner in the city ex- cepting Drs. Griffin and Den. Dr. Harmon, however, first came across the plains in 1853, bringing with him a drove of cattle, and re- mained here about four and a half years, a part of which time he was engaged in expressing and a part in banking in Oroville. In October, 1857, he sailed from San Francisco for the East. He would have embarked a day sooner had a debtor come to time with his promises; but had he done so he would have suffered the fate of the thousand passengers who were wrecked upon the Central America and drowned. The Doctor is now gradually withdrawing from medical practice and entering agricultural pur- suits and real-estate speculations. He owns a place ten miles south of Los Angeles, devoted to fruits and alfalfa. Besides, he owns 400 acres in Ventura County and city property in Los Angeles. His wife was a daughter of Thomas J. Judge, late supreme justice of Alabama.

WILL L. WADE, born in Hendricks County, Indiana, in 1841, was, in his younger days, a school-teacher-principal of graded schools for a time. He read medicine in Effingham, Illi- nois, attended the medical department of Butler University, and gradnated there in 1879; emi- grated to Oregon in the spring of 1875, prac- ticed there until he returned East in 1879 for the purpose of completing his medical course; then came again to Oregon and practiced there altogether nearly thirteen years; six years of this time he was medical officer of the Oregon Penitentiary. In the spring of 1887 he came to Los Angeles to recover his health, which he had lost by overwork and exposure. In Oregon he was president of the State Medical Society, and is now lecturer on materia medica in the medical department of the University of South- ern California.

FRANK L. HAYNES, the eldest of three broth- ers practicing medicine in Los Angeles, is a native of Pennsylvania, was educated in the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated there in 1870; studied medicine four years in the office of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, now the most distinguished

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surgeon in America; was two years resident physician of the Episcopal Hospital at Phila- delphia, and was afterward for a time engaged in general practice in that city, and then, in May, 1987, came to Los Angeles, where he has since devoted special attention to surgery. In August, 1887, in company with Dr. W. Lind- ley, he founded, at 121 Winston street, the Pa- cific Hospital, a private institution devoted almost exclusively to surgical practice. He was surgeon in charge. May 1, 1889, the in- stitution was moved to Fort street, near Sixth, since which time Dr. J. E. Cowles has been in charge. Dr. Haynes is one of the editors of the Southern California Practitioner.

His brothers, John R. and Robert W., are general practitioners here, having had a similar medical education. The three brothers and their parents all came to the coast at the same time, for the sake of the climate.

WILLIAM G. COCHRAN was born near Zanes- ville, Ohio, in 1844; studied medicine under the direction of Dr. C. Goodbrake, an old armny surgeon, at Clinton, Illinois; gradnated in 1869 at Rush Medical College, Chicago; practiced in Farmer City, De Witt County, Illinois, until the fall of 1879, and then pursued a course of study at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia, and received another diploma there in the spring of 1880; has been in practice here in Los Angeles since the fall of 1881, and has also been prominent in organizing the Southern California Medical Society; was one of the or- ganizers of the medical departinent of the University of Southern California, in which he was for two years professor of clinical medicine. Is also one of the organizers and a director of the Los Angeles National Bank, which opened for business five years ago.

SAMUEL S. SALISBURY, homeopathist, was born in Brown County, Ohio, in 1848; studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. W. H. McGranaghan, in Marysville, Ohio; obtained his literary education at Lebanon (Ohio) College, and graduated in medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1873; prac-

ticed in Washington, Ohio, fourteen years, and then came to Los Angeles for the sake of his health and that of his daughter. He has three children. As a practitioner here he has an in- c reasing patronage.

ELMER A. CLARK was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, December 13, 1848, of New York parents; was educated at Brooklyn Col- lege, Brooklyn, New York; at the age of nineteen began the study of medicine, under the guidance of Dr. J. E. Smith, at Jackson, Michigan, and continued with him four years, during which time he graduated at the Cleve- land Homeopathic Hospital College, in 1870. He then practiced his profession at Benton Har- bor, Michigan, until August, 1881, with signal success, but the winter of 1878-'79 he spent at his alma mater, reviewing his medical studies. In 1881, for the sake of a sunny climate and of his wife's health, he emigrated to the Pacific Coast, stopping at San José and San Diego for a time. Has been a resident and a practitioner of Los Angeles since October, 1884. Was the prime mover in the organization of the Los An- geles Homeopathic Medical Society, which is now a very lively organization.

JOHN R. COLBURN was born in Little Rock, Arkansas; graduated in the St. Louis (Missouri) Medical College in 1878, and practiced in Lit- tle Rock until 1886, when he came to Los An- geles, for his health. Has spent a year traveling in this State, especially in the southern part, by private conveyance, accompanied by his wife. She was a Miss Gibson, of Little Rock, and they were married in 1885.

WILLIAM LE MOYNE WILLS, a descendant from French and Scotch-Irish, was born in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania. Many of his near relatives have been or are physicians, but his father, Jolın A. Wills, is a retired lawyer, of Los Angeles. Dr. Wills obtained his literary education at Harvard University and at Wash- ington, and his medical at Jefferson and Pennsylvania medical colleges, at Philadelphia, graduating in 1882. Was resident physician of a hospital at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, two

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years. Came to Los Angeles in 1883. In 1885, on the opening of the medical college here-in which he was active-he was ap- pointed to the Chair of Anatomy, which he still holds. In his general practice he devotes especial attention to surgery. Has been secre- tary, and is now president, of the Los Angeles Connty Medical Society, and is also a member of the State Medical Society.

DR. F. R. FROST, of the firin of Kirkpatrick & Frost, physicians and surgeons, 17 North Main street, Los Angeles, was born near De- troit, Michigan, in 1856, of New England par- entage; received his medical education at the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, and at Rush Medical College, Chicago where he graduated in February, 1882; practiced medicine in his native State for a time, and in 1883 emigrated to California. Here, after following his profession at Downey, this county, for a year, he came to the city of Los Angeles, practiced medicine two years, then visited and traveled in the East for a time, practicing as a physician in Chicago for a year, and finally, in January, 1888, he returned to Los Angeles and became associated in practice with Dr. Ross C. Kirkpatrick, as already in- dicated.

GEORGE W. LASHER, Professor of Surgical Anatomy in the College of Medicine of the University of Southern California, was born in Columbia County, New York, forty-one years ago, received his literary education chiefly in New York City, graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1872, and in 1882 came to California, principally to recuperate his health. In 1887-'88 he spent a year in Europe, in ad- vanced medical studies.

ANDREW S. SHORE, the oldest homeopathic practitioner in Southern California, has been here ever since June, 1871. A native of Canton, Ohio, he received his elementary education there and completed his medical studies in Iowa, commencing practice in 1860. In 1880 he re- ceived a diploma from the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati. He was one of the prime movers

in the organization of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society, and was its first president.

HORACE B. WING is a son of Dr. Henry Wing, deceased, who was a member of the faculty of the Chicago Medical College. He was born in Carlinville, Madison County, Illi- nois, in 1858, gradnated in literature at the Illi- nois College, Jacksonville, in 1880, and in medicine at the Chicago Medical College, in May, 1887, since which time he has been practic- ing his profession here in Los Angeles, and since December, that year, has been local surgeon for the Santa Fe Railroad Company. He also fills the Chair of Physiology in the College of Medi- cine of the University of Southern California, and is a member of the County Medical Society.

EVERETT R. SMITH, a native of Vermont, was taken by his parents to Illinois when young; graduated at Rush Medical College in 1873; practiced medicine in Northern Illinois, 1874- '87, the last two years at Rockford, and then, on account of his wife's ill health he came with her to California, in May, 1887, he having tested this climate in 1864. She has recovered, and they are both now content to make this their home.

JAMES T. MORGAN, a native of Iowa and brought up in Lewis County, Missouri, grad- uated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1877, and practiced in Chariton County, Missouri, until he came to California, in August, 1883, first locat- ing in Verdugo, now known as Glendale. In 1888 he built a residence in East Los Angeles and moved into it, and opened an office in the city on Spring street, and now has a practice both in the city and the country.

THOMAS J. MCCARTY, an Indianian, studied medicine at the Ohio Medical College at Cin- cinnati and at the Kentucky School of Medicine, at the latter of which he graduated in 1884. After practicing in Indiana nearly two years, he emigrated to Los Angeles. Is a member of the County and Southern California Medical societies, and professor of chemistry and toxicol -

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ogy in the College of Medicine of the Univer- sity of Southern California.

FREDERICK T. BICKNELL, born in Chittenden County, Vermont, was ten years old when his parents moved with him to Wisconsin, where he attended the State University. Served in the army three years, 1862-'65. In 1870 he graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago. Practiced medicine in Southwestern Missouri three and a half years, and then spent the win- ter of 1873-'74 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and also at the Bellevue Hospital. In 1874 he settled here in Los An- geles a few months, and then until 1881 was in the mining region in Inyo County, practicing medicine; since then he has been practicing in Los Angeles. He occupied the chair of Gyne- cology in the Medical College until the spring of 1888, when poor health induced him to re- sign.

W. W. HITCHcock, a native of Carroll County, Illinois, was educated at Grinnell College, Iowa, graduating in 1869, and received his medical diplomas at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1879, and at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1881. After practicing at South Bend, Indiana, until 1887, he came to Los An- geles. He was the chief agent at South Bend in getting that city supplied with artesian water. Is a member of the Los Angeles County Medi- cal Society.

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Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1092

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1092