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Biographies
JOHN VINCENT
BARROW, M. D.
Dr. John Vincent Barrow, who enjoys
high standing in professional ranks as one of the most prominent physicians of
the west, has been a resident of Los Angeles since 1911. A native of Illinois, he was born at Campbell
Hill, that state, September 13, 1877, his parents being Andrew Jackson and
Nancy (Musgrave) Barrow. He was
graduated from the Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale in
1901 and subsequently spent six years in educational work for the government in
the Philippine Islands. He left that
service in 1907 as principal of the Manila high school, having determined upon
the practice of medicine as a life work.
Dr. Barrow took his pre-medical work at the University of Chicago,
receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in 1909. Two years later, in 1911, he received the
degree of M. D. from Rush Medical College of Chicago and served an internship
in the Los Angeles General Hospital. He
has been an attending physician in that institution ever since and is now a
member of the advisory board and chief of the attending medical staff. He is not only well known locally in internal
medicine and diagnosis but ranks among the most eminent clinicians in the country. He has served as a member of the staffs of
most of the local hospitals and is a senior member of the staff of the
California Lutheran Hospital.
Dr. Barrow has been honored with the
presidency of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and is also a member
of the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, the Southern California
Medical Society, the Hollywood Academy of Medicine, the California State
Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He is a fellow of the American College of
Physicians and his name is likewise on the membership roll of the American
Society of Tropical Medicine. The Doctor
is the author of a number of technical articles which have been published in
medical journals. For a number of years
he has engaged in study and research through clinics and laboratories on the
subject of human intestinal protozoa, and in collaboration with Stacy Woodard,
her produced probably the first moving pictures of these organisms. He is a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity,
is professor of clinical medicine in the College of Medical Evangelists, and is
listed in Who’s Who in America. He
belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Riviera Country Club.
Before beginning his medical career,
Dr. Barrow married Miss Dolores Machado, a descendant of the old pioneer
Spanish families. Mrs. Barrow is a
member of the Woman’s University Club of Los Angeles, the Friday Morning Club
and the Woman’s Athletic Club. She is
also a very active worker in the Women’s Auxiliary of the Los Angeles County
Medical Association, of which she is president.
To Dr. and Mrs. Barrow were born two sons: John Vincent, Jr., whose accidental death in
September, 1927, brought them great sorrow; and Carl Barrow.
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 799-800, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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