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EDWARD RICKEY BRADLEY

 

 

     BRADLEY, EDWARD RICKEY, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born at Folsom, Cal., February 24, 1865, the son of Cyrus H. Bradley and Cordelia A. Bradley.  On April 18, 1894, he married Virginia Burton Williamson at Los Angeles.  There was born one child, Gertrude Muriel Bradley.

     Dr. Bradley was taken to Los Angeles, in 1873, and attended school in that city.  He graduated from high school in 1885 and entered the College of medicine, University of Southern California, at Los Angeles.  He was graduated with the degree of M. D. In 1888, and put in the next year at the Bellevue Medical College (N. Y.), receiving a degree there in 1889.  He then filled a vacancy on the staff of Bellevue Hospital, but resigned to return to Los Angeles and enter private practice.

     Most of his work has been devoted to children.  For ten years after returning to Los Angeles, he acted as physician to the Los Angeles Orphans’ Home and when his growing practice would not permit him to continue actively in the work of caring for the little sufferers, he served on the consulting staff.  At the same time he looks after several smaller institutions.

     A lover of his profession and especially of that branch including infants and children, he spent much time in traveling and visiting the children’s hospitals in the Old world, studying methods of the institutions.

     He has also written a number of papers on diseases of children and delivers lectures at mothers’ gatherings in which he has given valuable instruction on the care of children.

     He is a member of the Los Angeles County, California State and American Medical Associations.  He also belongs to the Federation Club, L. A. Chamber of Commerce and the

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Transcribed 10-16-08 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 152, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2008 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

 

 

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