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FRANCIS X.
AMMANN, M. D.
Since
1913 Dr. Francis X. Ammann has continuously followed his profession in Los
Angeles, save for the period devoted to service in the
World War, and is well known in medical circles of the city as assistant
surgeon of the Southern California Edison Company. Born in Newark, New Jersey, April 14, 1890,
he is a son of Francis X. and Mary M. (Dutzler) Ammann, who removed with their family to Williams, Arizona,
in 1897 and in the same year located in Needles, San Bernardino County,
California.
Dr.
Ammann completed the curriculum of the Los Angeles high school in 1907 and
obtained his higher education in the University of Southern California, from
which he was graduated in 1912 with the M. D. degree. His scholastic standing won for him an
internship in a hospital at San Francisco, after which he was resident surgeon
for a construction company in northern California. In 1913 he opened an office in Los Angeles,
engaging in general practice for a year, and in 1914 joined the medical staff
of the Southern California Edison Company.
Four years later he laid aside his work in that connection to enlist for
service in the World War and on March 25 1918, became
a member of the medical corps of the United States Army. Commissioned a first lieutenant, he spent one
year overseas, and was mustered out July 2, 1919. Returning to Los Angeles, he resumed his
duties with the Southern California Edison Company and in the capacity of
assistant surgeon has rendered valuable service to that corporation and its
employees.
On
December 29, 1915, Dr. Ammann was married to Miss Mary A. Powell, who was born
in New York but was reared in the state of Kansas, and they have become the
parents of a daughter, Frances Marie.
Dr. Ammann is a baseball and football enthusiast and also enjoys the
sport of fishing. His political support
is given to the Republican Party, and in religious belief he is a
Catholic. He has taken the third degree
in the Knights of Columbus, also belongs to the University Club, and keeps in
close touch with the onward march of his profession through his membership in
the Los Angeles County and California State Medical Societies and the American
Medical Association.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 813-814,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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