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After retiring from this important office, Dr. Smith traveled for a year in search of health. He first visited Redlands in 1894, and located here permanently in 1896. He made a number of investments in the city and improved his beautiful home, Palmateo, on Palm avenue and San Mateo street. He died here.
D. W. WHITE, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born in Illinois, Aug. 23, 1854. He was
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a son of Benjamin White, a lawyer, contemporary with Josh Allen, Bob Ingersoll and John A. Logan, and "rode the circuit" with them many years. His mother's maiden name was Virenda Campbell. He has only one brother, who is now living in Northern California.
Dr. White's school days were passed in Olney, Ill. He graduated from the Louisville Medical College in the spring of 1877, and began the practice of medicine in Southern Illinois, on the Ohio river, where he continued nine years. He came to California in 1883 and located in Lake county. He was medical director for Highlands and Bartlett springs ten years. Dr. White came to San Bernardino in 1893 and established the Owl drug store, a business he continued until 1900, disposing of it to the present proprietors, Schlott & Clute, but again, in 1901, launched the San Bernardino Drug Co., which is managed by his partner, J. C. Whit- lock. He has since given his whole time to professional work, not giving the drug business his personal attention.
Dr. White married Miss Alice A. Lee of Elizabethtown, Ill., in 1876. Dr. and Mrs. White are members of the Presbyterian church, of which organization the doctor has been elder.
ALFRED D. BEDFORD, M. D., was born in Sullivan county, Penn., November 15, 1848, the son of Jonas and Lydia Molyneaux Bedford. His father, a native of England, came
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to America about 1815, and located on a farm in the Allegheny mountain country. Mr. Bedford attended the local district schools until about eighteen years of age, and then entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Penn., and in 1873 went to Europe to complete his medica! course at the German universities. Financial reasons compelled his return to America, and he en- gaged himself as instructor of scientific branches at the Military Academy of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After a year he resumed his medical studies at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1877. He commenced practice in Iowa and remained there until he came to California in 1882. In February, 1883 he came to San Bernardino, where he opened an office and stocked a drug store, of which he took charge. In 1895 Dr. Bedford took a course in the Chicago Opthalmic College and has since practiced as a specialist for the eye, nose and throat. In 1887 Dr. Bedford, in partner- ship with his brothers, under the firm name of Bedford Bros., purchased a large tract of land at North Ontario, which they at once began to improve.
Dr. Bedford married Miss Rebecca, daughter of John McNeil, of Jefferson, Iowa, June 10, 1880. Mrs. Bedford is a native of Michigan. They have a beautiful home in the city of San Bernardino. The family con- sists of two daughters-J. Berna and Frances E. Bed- ford. Dr. and Mrs. Bedford are members of the Pres- byterian church.
LYMAN N. BEDFORD, D. D. S., of San Bernardino, is a native of Sullivan Co., Pa .. born May 15, 1851. He was educated in the public schools and in 1835 graduated from the Pennsylvania Dental College. He spent some time as a pupil of his brother, Edmund Bed- ford, D. D. S., of Sioux City, Iowa, and in 1886 came to California and located in San Ber- nardino. With the exception of three years-1899-1902-he has since practiced his profession in this city. Dr. Bedford was married in 1888 to Miss Marietta, daughter of Elihu Smith. They have one son, Wilbur Elihu.
N. B. GLASGOW, D. D. S., was born in Nevada, Story county, Iowa, January 24, 1864. He is the son of David Glasgow and Cliste Wilcox Glasgow, one of a family of eight children and the only member of the family living in Southern California. He attended the High School at Nevada and graduated from the dental department of the University of Iowa in 1890. The two years following he was engaged as demonstrator in the dental department of the university, then opened a dental office in Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until August 1, 1894, when he came to San Bernardino. After his arrival he formed a partnership with Dr. S. C. Bogart, and they continued together five years. Since then he has conducted the business alone. He is a member of the Masonic order and a director in the Arrowhead Club.
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THOMAS BENTON CLEMMONS, of East Highland, was born in Milton, Pike county, Ill., March 10, 1858. He married Miss Elsie Corrington, of Carrollton, Ill., in October, 1872. They have four children-Anna, Leta, Grace and Merton B. He is engaged in raising oranges.
A. K. JOHNSON, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born on a farm near Marseilles, L.+ Salle county, Ill., January 15, 1852. In addition to other imperative duties, the young man studied medicine in the office of Dr. G. A. Corning, of Marseilles, Ill., and en- tered the Hahneman Medical College of Chicago, from which he graduated February 12, 1878. He immediately be- gan the practice of his profession at Pontiac. Ill., and after two years here removed to Greene, Butler county, Ia. In the fall of 1883 he came to San Ber- nardino and at once formed a partner- ship with Dr. H. W. Rice, son-in-law of the late ex-Governor Waterman. Dr. Rice died in 1884. Dr. W. H. Stiles, an old friend and classmate of Dr. John- son, succeeded to Dr. Rice's interests. Dr. Johnson is a member of the Cali- fornia State Homeopathic Society and of the F. and A. M. of San Bernardino. He is a member and trustee of the Con- gregational church and a director in the San Bernardino Building and Loan As- sociation of San Beranrdino. He is a trustee of the Carnegie library and has served on the building committee during the erection of the library building.
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In 1882 Dr. Johnson married Mrs. F. E. Woodling, widow of a prominent business man at, Greene, Iowa. They have one son, Lloyd. Mrs. A. D. Whit- ney of Los Angeles and Frank L. Wood- ling, of the Whitney-Woodling Trunk Co., are step-children of Dr. Johnson.
ZACHARIA GLASS, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born in Scott county, Ky., Novem- ber 1, 1820, the son of Fleming and Hannah Fink Glass, both natives of Virginia. His father was a soldier of the war of 1812, having taken part in the battles of Tippecanoe and Thames, He died in 1832. After his death, the mother removed with her children to Versailles, Ky., where Z. P. Glass was apprenticed to the tailor's trade. On account of ill treatment he ran away from his master and went to work as a journeyman, but at the end of six months returned and was given good wages by his employer. He worked at his trade until 1848, in the meantime using his spare hours to study medicine. He then began practice, his first experience being during the cholera scourge of 1848, when he was left alone in Port Royal to combat the disease, the other physicians having fled. Of sixty-five cases treated by him, all but three recovered. During this trying time he was associated with Dr. Norvin Green, who afterward became widely known as the president of the Western Union Telegraph Co .. and whose friendship he enjoyed for many years.
In the fall of 1848 Dr. Glass entered the Physiopathic Medical College of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1850. He practiced for three years in Cincinnati, then was located at various points in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Indiana. In 1862 he took charge of Dr. Trall's sanitarium at Wernersville, Pa., and in 1863 went to Minneapolis to manage a similar institution for Dr. Trail, and later erected and conducted for himself a sanitarium in that city. After three years in Quincy, Ill., he removed to Hannibal, Mo., where he built a sani- tarium known as Elmwood Park, one of the most beautiful retreats in that part of the coun- try and one which was visited by many notable people. He alternated between Hannibal and Quincy, still managing the sanitarium, until 1897, when he came to California, where he set- tled in San Bernardino, and gave up active practice.
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In many respects Dr. Glass is a remarkable man. He claims that all hcaling power resides in living organisms; to cure diseases, remove the cause, and supply to the living healing power within the body, the conditions of health. Drug poisons cannot supply 2 condition of health. These principles have governed his practice and his success has been marked. He attributes his own immunity from disease to a strict vegetarian diet, absti- nence from the use of tobacco and liquors, and the practice of taking a cold bath in the open air every day in the year.
April 3, 1838, Dr. Glass married Eliza A. Branham of Scott county, Kentucky. Mrs. Glass died April 30, 1887, leaving four children-Annie, Mrs. 'Wm. E. Lindsey, of New London, Mo .; George N., of Sheridan, Ind .; Fleming, of Birds, Ill .; Thomas L., of Hanni- bal, Mo. All of the sons were in the Union army, the two younger ones having entered the ranks at the age of fourteen and sixteen years respectively. November 2, 1887, Dr. Glass married Miss Viola, daughter of L. K. and Irene Loveland, Hewett, of Lansing, Mich. He has been ably assisted by Mrs. Glass in his practice, she having had experience in hygienic institutions for many years. Dr. Glass has always been a Jeffersonian Democrat, believing in single tax, the only just system of taxation.
DR. FRANCIS P. TROXALL was born in Allentown, Lehigh county, Pa., January 31, 1834. His father was Peter Troxall, a native of Switzerland; his mother, Elizabeth Mickley, of English descent. Dr. Troxall spent his boyhood and youth at Allentown, where he attended the local schools and academy. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Allentown Democrat, and subsequently was employed as a typo- grapher in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and other cities. In 1861 he enlisted in the 5th Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, and saw active service for seevral months in the civil war, when he was mustered out. He then began the study of medicine under Dr. E. G. Martin of Allentown. After attending a course of lectures he again, with Dr. Martin, volunteered in the local military service for sev- eral months. At the close of the Rebellion he completed his medical course, graduating at the University of Penn- sylvania in Philadelphia, and began his practice in Allen- town. In 1882 he came to California and practiced his profession at Colton until 1889; he afterwards spent about a year in old Mexico and also practiced two years in Los
Angeles. In 1893 he took up his permanent residence near Chino, where he has a fine fruit and walnut ranch, to which he has retired, to enjoy a well earned .rest after a long and useful career as a physician. His wife, who died some years ago, was Alice Balliet, a native of Lehigh county. They had two children, Frederick B. and Mar- ion E., who was the wife of Dr. H. A. Spangler of Car- lisle, Pa., and who died in 1890.
DR. FRANCIS P. TROXAL DR. T. D. KELLOGG, of Chino, is a native of Can- ada, born at Caledonia Springs, near Montreal, in 1849. His father, Joseph Kellogg, was a merchant of large means, but failed in business and died, leaving his son as the main support of the family. They came to the United States in 1859 and located in Iowa. Here Dr. Kellogg taught in the public schools and then worked his way through Ames' College. Later he entered the medical department of the Iowa State University and taught chemistry, of which he had made a special study. He was offered the chair of chem- istry in Arkansas State University, but declined, preferring to follow his profession. He practiced first at Douds, in Van Buren county, Iowa, and in 1876 came to Southern Califor- nia. Here he located at Alhambra, being one of the first settlers of that place and resided here for about nineteen years. He put up one of the first buildings, and erected a sanitarium at a cost of $17,000, which was burned, thus ruining him finan- cially. Dr. Kellogg practiced in the vicinity of Alhambra and was acquainted with many of the old pioneers and the early events of the history of that neighborhood. He used to visit Catalina Island before the Bannings purchased it and suggested the idea of a glass bottom boat by fitting a pane of glass into a box and studying the sea bottom thus. About 1894 he removed to Chino where he now lives.
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He was married at Douds, Iowa, in 1874 to Miss Rebecca M. Whitten, a teacher of that place. Her family were among the pioneer settlers of the community. They have five children living-Bessie, wife of C. W. Keys of Alhambra; Edith R., Walter J., John M., Cleaver T.
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WESLEY THOMPSON, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., June 30, 1845, the son of John Thompson, an Indiana pioneer of 1830. He received the rudiments of education in a log school house, later attending the M. E. Seminary at Tip- pecanoe and finishing at Asbury-now Desplaines-Uni- versity. In 1863 he enlisted in the 87th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers., 14th Army Corps, taking part in all the en- gagements of the Atlantic campaign and marching with General Sherman to the sea. He was with the army at the surrender of Gen. Johnson and at the grand review in Washington; then went to Bethlehem, O., and Louisville, . Ky., where the troops were held in view of threatened trouble with Mexico; received final discharge from ser- vice and was mustered out at Louisville, July, 1865, at 20 years of age, having served his country two years. Fol- lowing his discharge from the army he engaged in the drug business and commenced the study of medicine at Reasling, Ind., continuing in business at that place until graduation from Miami Medical College, Cleveland, in 1869. He be- gan the practice of medicine at Effingham, Illinois, where he remained eighteen years, building up a very lucrative practice and taking a prominent part in the development of the city. While in Effingham, Dr. Thompson married Miss Mary M., daughter of F. W. Little, now of Los An- geles. Owing to the ill health of Mrs. Thompson, a change of climate was deemed desirable and they removed to Cali- fornia in 1887, locating in San Bernardino, where the doctor has continued the practice of his profession. In WESLEY THOMPSON, M. D. 1889 Dr. Thompson was elected coroner of San Bernar- dino county, serving two terms, and in 1898 was again re- elected and is now serving a third term of four years.
Dr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of six children-Victor, Mary, Rubie, Jennie. Ada and Emma. Dr. Thompson has always been a Republican in political sentiments, and has made a thoroughly efficient official as his long tenure of office testifies. He is a member of the G. A. R., adjutant of the G. A. R. Post in this city; a member of the U. S. Board of Pension Examiners of San Bernardino county. Dr. Thompson is also a member of the Maccabees and of the school board of Del Rosa district.
DR. CLARENCE D. DICKEY was born in San Bernardino, July 26, 1860. He grad- uated from the Oakland High school in 1882, and then went to Philadelphia, where he entered the Jefferson Medical College from which he received his degree, in 1886. He returned to his native city where he has since followed his profession. He has served as county physician for five years and is now city health officer and surgeon for the Santa Fe. He is a member of the order of N. S. G. W., the Elks, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias and Fraternal Brotherhood. In 1888 he married Miss Josie J. Kearns, of San Bernardino. They have two sons, Lindsay and Clarence.
W. F. FREEMAN, M. D., of Needles, California, was born in Milton, Ont., Canada, January 26, 1857. He is the son of C. Freeman and Elizabeth Martha (Cobban) Freeman, the mother now living near Ontario, California. His father, by profession a physician and surgeon, was a volunteer surgeon in the U. S. Army during the Civil War. Dr. Freeman received his education in Canada, and graduated after a three years' course, from the Medical College of Toronto. He has received diplomas from Trinity University, Toronto, Canada, and Toronto University ; is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Canada, and is a licentiate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where lie took the triple qualifications, and subsequently attended a post graduate school at New York City. Dr. Freeman has practiced medicine in Ontario, Canada, four years in Wy- oming, three years in Los Angeles and four and a half years in Needles. He came to Needles January 4, 1900, to take a position as local surgeon for the Santa Fe coast lines. He is interested in mining properties in the county. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F.
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JOHN MEYER, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born in Missouri, June 19, 1878, the son of Christian Meyer. He attended primary schools in the Eastern states and graduated from the San Bernardino High School in 1896. After two years' work in the University of California he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1901. Since returning to San Bernardino he has received the ap- pointment of superintendent of the San Bernardino County Hospital.
May 8, 1900, he was married to Miss Maude Mossman, of Barton, Vt., in Boston, Mass.
He is a member of the B. P. O. E., also of Cali- fornia State Medical Society, American Medical As- sociation, secretary of San Bernardino Board of Health and secretary of San Bernardino County Medical Society.
ARMSTRONG, C. PRATT, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born in Mendosia, Ill., August 2, 1874, the son of Orlando F. Pratt, a physician. His mother died when he was eighteen months old and he was brought up in the family of his grandfather, J. L. Pratt, who removed to Texas, locating in Wichita county, where the boy went through the public schools. He came to California in 1892 and spent a year at the Throop Polytechnic school, a year at Stanford and graduated from the dental depart- ment of the University of California, at Berkeley, in 1898. He immediately located in San Bernardino and and formed a partnership with L. N. Bedford, which JOHN MEYER, M. D. continued until 1899, when he purchased his part- ner's interest and continued alone. In 1901 he soid his practice to Dr. Lyman and entered the medical department of the University of Southern California, from which he graduated in 1904, after which he entered into partnership with Dr. J. H. Meyer, of San Bernardino.
September 12, 1899, Dr. Pratt married Miss Della Wendelbow, of San Bernardino.
CHARLES D. WATSON, M. D., of Ontario, was born in Tioga County, N. Y., De- cember 16, 1827. He was the son of George Watson, a farmer, and a native of Connecti- cut. His grandfather was John Watson, who served as a soldier in the French and Indian war and in the Revolutionary War, enlisting from Litchfield, Connecticut. Charles D. Watson left New York for Wisconsin in 1850. Later he went to Indiana and located near Covington. Here he studied medicine and then took a course of lectures and gradu- ated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1854. He began the practice of his pro- fession at Covington.
July 23, 1862, he enlisted in the 18th Indiana Battery and was assigned as Quarter- master Sergeant. September 30, 1862, he was detailed as acting Assistant Surgeon; Novem- ber 24, he was detached for hospital duty, at Scottsville, Ky., and commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 54th Ind. Vol. Inf. January 11, 1863, he was discharged for promotion at Mur- freesborough; January 30, reported for duty at Young's Point, La .; February 15, was sent home on account of sickness. He receives a pension as sergeant. He continued his prac- tice in the vicinity of Covington until 1885, when he came to California and located at Ontario.
His first wife, who was Miss Celeste McCormick, of Covington, died in 1881, and in 1882 he married Caroline Smith, of the same place. He has no children. He is a member of the G. A. R. and has served several terms as health officer of Ontario.
DR. J. E. PAYTON, of Redlands, was born in Keokuk, Iowa, June 9, 1857. When he was five years of age his parents moved by ox team to La Grande, Oregon, and later settled at Salem. In that city Mr. Payton received his education and graduated in 1877 from the medical department of Willamette University. He began the practice of his pro- fession at Drain, Douglas County, Oregon, where he lived for twelve years. Then, seek- ing a larger field Dr. Payton went to New York City and took a special course at the New York Polyclinic. Returning to Oregon he again began practice, locating at Eugene City.
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From Oregon he came to California and after a year at San Jose removed to Redlands in February, 1895, since which time he has practiced medicine in that place. Dr. Payton married Miss Eliza, daughter of R. C. Kinney, a pioneer of Oregon and the owner of extensive flouring mills at Salem. They have one daughter, Grace.
SAMUEL G. HUFF, M. D., of San Bernardino, was born October 4, 1845, at Salem, Marion county, Ill. He was the son of Joshua E. Huff, a farmer by occupation, but a man who filled many official positions, having been justice of the peace, county superin- tendent of schools and serving in other minor offices.
Samuel G. Huff received a common school educa- tion and lived in Illinois until 1861. In 1863, when 21 years of age, he started for California, journeying by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, coming direct to San Bernardino, where he engaged as tutor in the fam- ily of James Waters and other citizens of San Bernar- dino. Returning east he began the study of medicine in Chicago, afterwards taking a course at the St. Louis Medical College, graduating from that institution in 1870. He practiced medicine for a time in Ashland and Beatrice, Neb .; returning to San Bernardino in 1880, he engaged in the practice of his profession, and in 1884 was elected coroner for the county, holding the office one term. In 1887 he was appointed county physician:
Dr. Huff married Miss Mary A., daughter of B. Y. Searles, of Salem, Illinois. They are the parents of five children now living-Ola, wife of C. P. Palm, a teacher ; Ray W. Huff, a jeweler of Orange county; Bertha, Ralph and Henry Huff reside with the parents at their home.
WILLIAM H. DAVIES, physician and surgeon, Rialto, is a native of Virginia. He received a common school education and commenced the study of medi- SAMUEL G. HUFF, M. D. cine by taking a course at the Westchester Medical College, Virginia; subsequently entering the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating from that institution with honor. In 1861 he entered the medical department of the Confederate army, and served as a surgeon until the close of the war. He then returned to his native state and the practice of his profession. In 1884, Dr. Davies removed to Maquoketa, Iowa, where he remained until 1896, then, together with his family, consisting of Mrs. Davies, Mrs. Dixon, of San Bernardino, a daughter, and two sons, Walter and William, he came to San Bernardino, where he opened an office and practiced for two years. He then pur- chased a large orange ranch near Rialto, and closing his business in San Bernardino re- moved to that city, making it his permanent home, and still continuing the practice of his profession.
Dr. Davies is a member of the medical societies of Virginia and Iowa, and a life member of the American Medical Association. From 1889 to 1896 he was an U. S. pension surgeon. Dr. Davies is at present an acting elder of the Presbyterian Church of San Bernardino.
D. W. REES, M. D., of Needles, was horn in London, England, January 18, 1869. He is the son of Lewis and Margaret Jones Reese. The family came to America in 1872, locating at Pittsburg, Pa., where the father engaged in the grocery business. Dr. Rees received his education in the city of Pittsburg and is a graduate of the Pittsburg High. School. He came to California in 1889, entering the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Southern California, at Los Angeles; and later the California Medical College in San Francisco, graduating from the latter institution November, 1889. He began the practice of medicine at Weaverville, Trinity county, California, and was appointed county physician, remaining there two years, resigning the position on account of impaired health, and removing to Needles, December, 1801. He practiced medicine one year and then es- tablished a drug store in connection with his professional practice, continuing both since that time.
Dr. Reese married Miss Maggie May Scott in Santa Ana, California, March 5, 1891. They have one child, a son, Clarence Edwin Rees. Dr. Rees is a member of the Order
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