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A marriage ceremony was celebrated in Baden, Germany, September 10, 1864, by which the fortunes of Dr. Schwalbe and Miss Mary Nieder- stein were united. Of their five children, a son died in Germany, and two are still living there, while the other two are in the United States. Those surviving are named, respectively: Mary, Gertrude, Charlie and Helena.
ILLIAM FRANCIS EDGAR, M. D., de- ceased, for many years one of the most prominent citizens of Los Angeles, was born in Kentucky, of Virginian parentage. When a boy he accompanied his parents to Mis- souri, but returned to Kentucky to pursue his studies, and in 1848 graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville. Im- mediately afterward he went to New York City, where, after passing a successful examination, he was commissioned an assistant surgeon in the regular army, March 2, 1849. He was ordered to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., and thence went to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and from tliere accompanied a regiment of mounted rifles across the plains. At that time there was a great rush for the California gold fields, and the soldiers were never out of sight of parties of Ar- gonauts until they diverged from the California route, west of the Rocky Mountains. Two com- panies were detailed to build and garrison a mili- tary post at Fort Hall, on the Lewis fork of the Columbia or Snake river, and to this command
Dr. Edgar was assigned. The post was in the lieart of the country of the Shoshone (or Snake) Indians and was intended to protect emigrants on the Oregon trail. However, it was so diffi- cult of access and the winters were so cold, that the war department ordered its abandonment and the command marched to Fort Vancouver, where they arrived in July, 1850. Afterward Dr. Edgar was stationed at The Dalles for a year. He then, with a part of the command under Gen. Philip Kearny, left Vancouver in April, 1851, en route to California. On the 4th of July they camped near the foot of Mount Shasta. After many skirmishes with hostile Indians and many perils incident to travel in unknown, mountain- ous regions, they arrived at Benicia, Cal., the last of July and thence marched to Sonoma, where were stationed Capt. (afterward Gen.) Joseph Hooker, Lieutenant (since General and Governor) Stoneman and others who afterward became widely known.
Later, in 1851, Dr. Edgar was ordered to Fort Miller, on tlie head waters of the San Joaquin river, where were stationed two companies of the Second United States Infantry. In the spring of 1852 the command was ordered into the Yosemite valley to punish the Indians who had massacred a party of miners. They were successful in this and then returned to Fort Miller in time to sup- press a war between whites and Indians in the Tulare country. In 1854 Dr. Edgar was ordered to Fort Redding. Soon afterward he joined a company of the First Dragoons, which marched to the Tejon Indian Reservation and later es- tablished Fort Tejon. On the night of December 8, 1854, he was called to go out in the mountains, in a blinding snow storm, to assist a wounded man of the fort. The night was dark and the ground slippery, causing his horse to fall and in the fall Dr. Edgar was seriously injured. How- ever, he went on and found the man, dressed his wound, and then returned to the fort, cold and exhausted. About sunrise he was stricken with paralysis of the left side, and it was four months before he was able to walk or speak. He was then ordered east, on a three months' furlough, with a servant to assist him on the trip. At the expiration of his leave of absence he reported for duty at Jefferson Barracks. He was ordered with the Second Cavalry to Texas and thence to
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Florida, later taking some invalid soldiers to New York. In 1857 he returned to Fort Miller, whence he accompanied troops to quiet In- dians in Oregon. After being stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco and at Benicia for a time he was ordered in 1858 to join an expedi- tion from Los Angeles to the Colorado river against the Mojave Indians. This was his first visit to Los Angeles and the first night here he slept at the Bella Union hotel, which was then a two-story adobe.
The expedition proceeded, via Cajon Pass, to the Colorado, where it subdued and punished In- dians who had massacred whites, and then re- turned to Cajon Pass. Later a much larger ex- pedition was organized by the same and other of- ficers and marched to the Mojave country. To this force the Indians surrendered and a treaty of peace was made. Part of the command re- mained to garrison Fort Mojave and the other part returned to Los Angeles county, the officers of the command camping at Compton. Dr Edgar was ordered to San Diego, where he re- mained until November, 1861, and then, with the balance of the regular troops on the coast, was ordered east to participate in the Civil war. He was for some time with the army of the Poto- mac and was promoted to surgeon (with the rank of major) in Buell's army in Kentucky, where he organized a large general hospital in Louisville. Next he was made medical director at Cairo, Il1. However, the uncongenial climate (which was especially debilitating during the summer months) caused a partial return of the paralysis and rendered him unfit for duty. He was ordered before a retiring board at Washing- ton, D. C., and on examination was retired from active service. After recovering from the effects of a surgical operation he was assigned to duty in the medical directors' office in the department of the east. During part of the time he was a member of the board that organized the Signal Corps in Washington. At the close of the war he closed up the hospitals of his department. He was then ordered to return to California and in 1866 was stationed at Drum Barracks, Los An- geles county, where he remained for three years. Failing health obliged him to seek a furlough and for a year he rested. During that time (in Jannary, 1870) congress passed a law which pro-
vided that officers retired from active service should be relieved from all duty. The passage of this law placed him on the retired list. He remained on his ranch at San Gorgonio for some years and then came to Los Angeles, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1881 he sold a portion of his ranch and in 1886 disposed of the remainder, after having owned it since 1859. The ranch was first owned by the well-known trapper, Pauline Weaver, of pioneer fame. In March, 1866, Dr. Edgar married Miss Catharine Laura Kennefer, of New York, who survives him, making her home in Los Angeles. Dr. Edgar spent his last years retired from the active duties that had filled his younger years, and enjoying that rest from professional and busi- ness cares which he so richly deserved. He died August 23, 1897, mourned by the host of friends who honored and admired him for his high ideals, his genial disposition, broad knowledge and his varied intellectual attainments.
ENRY HOBART MAYNARD, M. D. In no respect is Los Angeles more remarkable than for the character and the standing of its physicians, a large proportion of whom are graduates of leading eastern medical colleges and have gained reputations for broad knowledge of the art of healing. Such an one is Dr. Maynard, who has been engaged in the practice of the med- ical profession in this city since 1882. He was influenced in locating here by his far-seeing judgment in regard to the growth and develop- ment of the city, and his expectations in that regard have not been disappointed; on the other hand, the population has increased far more rap- idly than his most sanguine hopes pictured eigh- teen years ago. With the increase of the popu- lation, his own practice has expanded in quantity and assumed a constantly developing importance, which is the just reward of his painstaking care and recognized skill.
The Maynard family is of English extraction but French descent, descending from John May- nard, who came from England to America in 1638, and settled at Sudberg, Mass., where he died in 1672. From him descended Stephen Maynard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1763 and at the age of thirteen entered the conti-
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mental army as a musician. His son, Stephen, was born in Massachusetts, November 25, 1791, and at an early age settled in Ohio, thence re- moving to Iowa in 1844. He died in Tipton, that state, September 5, 1874. His wife, in maidenhood Lurenda Humphrey, was born in Connecticut September 4. 1801, and died at Tip- ton, Iowa, August 31, 1872.
During the residence of Stephen and Lurenda Maynard in Columbus, Ohio, their son, Henry H., was born September 6, 1835. He was nine years of age when the family settled in Iowa, and he grew to manhood on a farm near Iowa City. His primary education was obtained in country schools. Later he studied in the normal depart- ment of the Iowa University at Iowa City for a year. His studies from an early age were di- rected with a view to entering a profession. When twenty-two years of age he began to read medicine, being first with Dr. E. J. B. Statler and subsequently with Dr. Frederick L. Lloyd, both of Iowa City. Under their preceptorship he gained a rudimentary knowledge of the science.
Desiring to have the advantages of one of the leading institutions of the country, he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he took the regular course of lectures, graduating in March, 1861. Immediately after graduating he went to Tipton, Iowa, and opened an office, be- ginning the life of a general practitioner. In time he built up a good practice in and around Tipton. Meanwhile he continued his professional studies, for he had never ceased to be a student of his profession, keeping abreast with every discovery in the science. In 1874 he went to New York, where he took a post-graduate course in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, enjoying all the advantages which that remarkableinstitu- tion affords.
During his residence in Tipton, Dr. Maynard was married, September 5, 1865, to Miss Susan Edwards. They are the parents of three chil- dren: Maude, a graduate of Ellis College, Los Angeles, with the degree of A. B .; Rea Edwards, who graduated from the Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 1894, with the degree of A. B. and M. E., and from the Colorado School of Mines in 1898, with the degree of E. M .; and Frederick Gray, an assayist.
In November, 1881, the family came to Cali-
fornia, remaining for six months in the Santa Ana valley and thence coming to Los Angeles, where Dr. Maynard has since practiced his profession. His ability has received recognition in his ap- pointment to the position of professor of the prin- ciples and practice of surgery in the College of Medicine connected with the University of Southern California. He is now professor emeri- tus of surgery in that institution.
The devotion of Dr. Maynard to his country was thoroughly tested and proved during the Civil war. At the beginning of the struggle he threw his sympathies and energy into the cause of the Union and never afterward wavered in his allegiance to the government. He became assist- ant surgeon of the Eighteenth Iowa Infantry. For considerably more than a year he was sur- geon in charge of the general hospital at Spring- field, Mo. Later he was appointed surgeon of the Second Arkansas Cavalry and until almost the close of the war he remained nominally in that position, although during most of the time he was really the medical director of the south- western Missouri district. When the war closed he was released from a position in which he had served with such patriotic zeal and devotion, and August 20, 1865, he was mustered out with his regiment.
ILLIAM B. BULLARD, M. D. During the years that have elapsed since he came to Southern California Dr. Bullard has be- come known as a skillful physician. He was born in Oxford county, Me., April 12, 1829, a son of Jonathan and Nancy (Bradford ) Bullard, natives respectively of Massachusetts and Maine. On the maternal side he is a direct descendant of Governor Bradford, who was chief executive of the Massachusetts colony for thirty-six years. On his father's side he is also of good old Puritan stock, his paternal ancestors having come to this country ten years after the Mayflower first landed on our shores. Jonathan and Anna (Harring- ton) Bullard lived and died in the Bay state. Their son, Jonathan, married Ruth Whittamore, a descendant of an old and prominent family of the state. During the Revolutionary war he took up arms against England and participated in many of the hard-fought battles of that period, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis
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at Yorktown. His son, Jonathan, the third of of the County Medical Society and an active that name, was born at Oakham, Mass., Septen- Mason and Odd Fellow. In the affairs of East Los Angeles he is especially interested. Among all who know him his upright character and his ability command respect. Both he and his wife are identified with the Baptist Church. Besides her home and church duties Mrs. Bullard finds leisure for other interests. She is a charter mem- ber of the Wednesday Morning Club of this city, in which she is warmly interested, and is also a member of the Woman's Parliament of Los Angeles. ber 18, 1800, and died in Foxcroft, Me., June 4, 1879; his wife was born in Turner, Me., April 7, 1806, and died in the same town when seventy- seven years of age. They were the parents of six sons and six daughters. The father followed the occupation of a carriagemaker at Turner for fifteen years, after which he disposed of his inter- ests in the town and removed to Foxcroft, where, in addition to work at his trade, he engaged in farming and met with gratifying success.
The first school which Dr. Bullard attended was at Turner. After his parents removed to Foxcroft he attended an academy in that town. Being determined to obtain a good education, but not possessing the requisite means for such a course, he secured employment as teacher and carefully saved his earnings. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Josiah Jordan, of Foxcroft, and later read under Dr. Freeland S. Holmes. The degree of doctor of medicine was conferred upon him in June, 1859, at the time of his gradu- ation from Bowdoin Medical College. Locating at once in Lincoln, Penobscot county, Me., he began the practice of medicine, and soon became one of the foremost physicians of the town.
During the year of his graduation from Bow- doin, and on the 14th of August following, Dr. Bullard married Miss Lydia Dearborn, who was born in York county, Me., a daughter of Sylvanus and Mary (Meder) Dearborn, natives of Maine. Her father engaged in the manufacture of shoes during his active life, and died at Foxcroft when fifty-four years of age; his wife died at Jackson, the same state, at the age of thirty-six, leaving three children. Dr. and Mrs. Bullard became the parents of four children, three of whom are living. Of these, Frank D., of Los Angeles, is a successful physician and author; William L., an expert accountant, is connected with a large boot and shoe house in this city; and Charles T. served as a member of the Seventh California Regiment during the Spanish American war, and is now engaged in mercantile pursuits.
For twenty-seven years Dr. Bullard engaged in the practice of medicine at Lincoln, Me. He left there November 1, 1886, and came to Los An- geles, establishing his home at No. 259 Avenue 23, where he has since resided. He is a member
ERMAN GORDON BAYLESS, M. D., who has had the advantage of thorough professional preparation in schools in America and Europe, is engaged in the practice of medicine in Los Angeles. By birth a Ken- tuckian, he descends through his father from a long line of English ancestry. His grandfather, Abijah Bayless, was born in Lancashire, England, and in early manhood came to the United States, where he followed mercantile pursuits. He died in Louisville, Ky., when eighty-one years of age. His wife, who was a Miss Costello, died in the same city at the age of seventy. The doctor's father, Rev. John Clark Bayless, D. D., was born in New York City and received splendid advan- tages, being educated for the ministry at Prince- ton. Ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church, he gave his life to the preaching of the Gospel. So generous was he that every com- munity in which he lived was materially bene- fited by his presence. Frequently he established libraries, and twice, from his own private means, he built churches. Much of his life was passed in Kentucky and he died there when fifty-six years of age. He married Rosa, daughter of Jacob and Rosa Lewis, natives of Spain, whence her father, who was a banker in that country, emigrated to the United States in 1830, settling in Charleston, S. C., and dying there at the age of seventy- three. Mrs. Rosa Bayless was thirty- nine at the time of her death, which occurred in Covington, Ky. She left five children, all but one of whom are now living.
In the city of Covington, Ky., the subject of this sketch was born March 24, 1860. The rudiments of his education were acquired in that town. Later he studied in the Ashland schools.
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His collegiate course began in 1879 and covered a period of three years, after which he began the study of medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, taking the regular medical college course and graduating in 1882. Afterward he was retained as an interne in a hospital in that city. His first location was at Augusta, Ky.
Desiring to broaden his professional knowledge, in 1886 Dr. Bayless went to Europe, where he took advantage of instruction under the best teachers and in the most thorough institutions. His post-graduate course in Vienna proved par- ticularly helpful and profitable. On his return to the United States he engaged in practice at Knoxville, remaining there for six years. From there he went to Louisville, Ky., to accept the chair of surgery in the Homeopathic Medical College, a responsible position and one which he filled with efficiency. In 1895 he came to Los Angeles and opened an office opposite the post- office, later removing to Fourth street, and in 1899 to No. 355 South Broadway, his present office. He is a member of the Los Angeles Homeopathic Medical Society and the California State Medical Association, also belongs to the Doctors' Social Club, the Jonathan Club and the Masonic fra- ternity.
BERT. ELLIS, A. B., M. D. The medical profession in Los Angeles has many mem- bers who have achieved prominence in · their chosen field of labor, and of these the sub- ject of this sketch is one of the foremost. In the prime of life, he possesses that enthusiasm and energy and vitality which are essential to the highest success, and, being an earnest student, his mind is ever open to conviction and progress.
Dr. Ellis is a son of Dr. James Henry and Annie M. (Bullard) Ellis, who were of the stanch old New England stock, and descended from English ancestors. The father was a direct descendant of one of the lord mayors of London, while the mother traced her ancestry to William Bradford, second governor of Massachusetts and the head of the little colony of Puritans at Plymouth. Dr. J. H. Ellis, who was born April 23, 1836, in Middleboro, Mass., became one of the leading dental surgeons of the maritime provinces, and from 1867 to 1883 was located in Fredericton,
New Brunswick. His wife was also a native of the Bay state, and was born August 21, 1838.
The birth of Dr. H. Bert. Ellis took place in Lincoln, Me., May 17, 1863. His education was obtained in the public schools of Fredericton and in the University of New Brunswick, where he spent a year. During the following three years he attended Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, from which institution he was graduated in 1884. In July of that year he came to Los Angeles, and for a year was engaged in agricul- tural pursuits and in business enterprises in this city and Pasadena. In 1887 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Southern California, and was graduated there in April, 1888. During a portion of this time he was interne at the Los Angeles County Hospital. Subsequent to his graduation here he went to Europe in order to perfect himself in special branches, and there pursued studies at the uni- versities of Göttingen, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. April 1, 1889, he opened an office in Los Angeles, and entered upon a professional career which has been exceptionally successful. Since 1893 he has devoted himself exclusively to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has won wide distinction in this important and difficult field of labor. In October, 1889, he was honored by being chosen as a lec- turer on physiology in the College of Medicine of the University of Southern California. In Octo- ber, 1890, he was elected professor of the same department, and continued to act in that capacity until January, 1896, when he was elected to the chair of ophthalmotology, and in November, 1898, was further honored by being made treasurer of the college of medicine.
That Dr. Ellis stands especially high among his professional brethren is shown by the fact that he has so often been called upon to serve in official positions in the numerous medical organi- zations to which he belongs. In 1899 and 1900 he was president of the Southern California Medi- cal Society. He was senior vice president of the American Medical College Association, and has been either the secretary or assistant secretary of the Los Angeles County, Southern California, State and American Medical Associations, the American Medical Editors' Association and of the Doctors' Social Club of Los Angeles. More-
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over, he is a popular member of the California, the Jonathan and the University Clubs and of the Science Association of Southern California.
The marriage of Dr. Ellis and Miss Lula Tal- bott took place in this city May 3, 1888. In his political faith the doctor is a stanch Republican. He is identified with the Elks and the Masonic fraternities.
UBERT NADEAU, M. D., of Los Angeles, is of French-Canadian origin. He was born in 1841 near Marieville, Canada, where his father, John B., was a prosperous farmer and prominent citizen. The family being in comfort- able circumstances, it was possible for him to se- cure advantages denied those of humbler birth and surroundings. From an early age his studies were directed with the medical profession in view as their objective point. His advantages were exceptionally good. He was given a scientific education in St. Hyacinth's College in Canada. When twenty-one years of age, in 1862, he re- ceived the degree of M. D., on the completion of the regular course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Montreal.
Opening an office at St. Aimer, Canada, the young doctor began to practice his profession, and soon had a goodly share of the practice of his town. However, as the years passed by he be- gan to see the necessity of a larger field for pro- fessional activity, and resolved to seek a location in the States. The year 1866 found him in Kan- kakee, Ill., where he remained for eight years, building up a valuable patronage, and, in addi- tion to professional work, serving for four years as a member of the city council. Upon closing his office in Kankakee he began to travel, and during the next two years he visited most of the large cities in the United States and Can- ada, thus gaining a thorough knowledge of the country.
Since the spring of 1876 Dr. Nadeau has made his home in Los Angeles and meantime has gained a reputation for skill and scientific treat- ment of disease. Besides his private practice, for years he was physician in charge of the French hospital. In 1879 he was chosen coroner of Los Angeles county, and this office he held by re- election until 1884. In 1885 he was appointed professor and chief of dispensary clinics of the
medical department of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, a position that he filled for years with the greatest efficiency, his connection with the institution aiding greatly in the promotion of its success. Immediately after coming to this city he identified himself with the Los Angeles County Medical Society, of which in 1883 he served as president. His connection with the medical fraternity of the city and county has been most helpful to the progress of the pro- fession. It has always been his ambition to keep in touch with the latest developments in the sci- ence of materia medica. For this reason he has ever been a student of his profession. He has read the leading medical journals as well as the prominent publications in the interests of the sci- ence. His knowledge is therefore not superficial or narrow, but broad and deep and thorough. In the diagnosis of disease he is cautious, careful and conservative, not reaching decisions rapidly, but by logical processes of reasoning; and his opinion, when once given, is seldom afterward found to be at fault.
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