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WALTER JARVIS BARLOW
BARLOW, WALTER JARVIS, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in Ossining, New York, January 22, 1868, the son of William Henry Barlow and Catherine Stratton (Lent) Barlow. Ancestors original American colonists. Married Marion Brooks Patterson at Los Angeles in 1898. Three children born to them, W. J., Jr.; Catherine Lent and Ella Brooks.
Graduated at Mount Pleasant Military Academy,1885, New York State; graduated Columbia University 1889, degree A. B.; received degree M. D. at Columbia University in 1892. His first practice was as house physician at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City; then he was house surgeon at Sloane Maternity Hospital, New York; instructor Post Graduate School of New York.
Went to California in 1895; in private practice since 1895. Dean and professor of Clinical Medicine, Los Angeles Department, College of Medicine, University of California; vice president of American Academy of Medicine, member of American Climatological Association and President Los Angeles Medical Association; secretary-treasurer the Barlow Sanatorium.
Clubs: California and University, Los Angeles Athletic Club and Phi Pho Sigma Fraternity.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 545, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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