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DAVID CASSAT
BARBER
BARBER,
DAVID CASSAT, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles,
Cal., was born in Connersville, Ind.,
July 3, 1862, the son of Gideon M. Barber and Frances E. (Cassat)
Barber. He is of French descent, one of his ancestors being Guizot, historian.
He married Nellie B. Yates at San
Francisco, April 2, 1892. They have a son, Allyn H. Barber.
Dr.
Barber attended public school and was graduated from Moore’s
Hill College
in Indiana,
in 1882, with A. B. Received M.A. 1885. He entered Claverack
College in New
York City to prepare for Yale, but went instead to Miami Medical
College, part of the Univ. of Cincin. Received
M.D., 1886.
In
1886 Dr. Barber opened practice in Los Angeles, was appointed Professor of
Pathology and Clinical Medicines in the College of Medicine, Univ. Sou. Cal.,
and ten years later was chosen Professor of Clinical Surgery, since filling
these offices.
In
1891 Dr. Barber was elected to the Bd. of Educ. in Los Angeles and served two terms. From 1895
to 1899 and from 1903 to 1907 he was Supt. of Los Angeles County Hospital. With
a view of training competent nurses, he established, in connection with the
hospital, the first school for trained nurses in Sou. Cal., and it has become
one of the best schools of the kind in the U.S. Dr. Barber was chief surgeon of
the hospital during both his terms and he has since made surgery a specialty.
In addition to his lectures, he has written extensively on surgical and medical
topics and also is an inventor of note.
He
is a supporter of the Republican Party, member of the County Central Committee
and also belongs to the L. A. County Med. Ass’n., Sou. Cal. Med. Soc, Med.
Soc. of the State of Cal.
and Amer. Med. Ass’n. He is a 32d degree Mason,
member of the University Club and L. A. Athletic Club.
Transcribed
10-19-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 795, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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