Los Angeles County
Biographies
JOHN KINGSLEY CARSON
CARSON, JOHN KINGSLEY,
Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in Jacksonville, Ill.,
March 18, 1853, the son of James Kendall Carson, Jr., and
Elizabeth (Walker) Carson. He married Nellie M. Haley, of New York,
at Los Angeles, Sept. 7, 1892, and to them were
born two daughters, Nellie Kingsetta and Annie Allene Carson. The official march of the National Educators’
Association, at its meeting in Los Angeles, was named Kingsetta
March in honor of his eldest daughter. The doctor is of Scotch-Irish descent,
his family having settled in America before the Revolutionary War. His
grandfather was one of General Washington’s bodyguard.
Dr. Carson received his early education in the common
schools of St. Louis, Mo., and later attended Missouri Medical College,
graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1883. He served as interne at the
Female Hospital, St. Louis, for a year, then
began practice in Southwestern Missouri. Leaving there he went to Los Angeles
in 1887.
In addition to his practice, Dr. Carson has been
prominent in various enterprises which have aided in the progress of the city.
He was one of the founders of the Pacific Hospital of Los Angeles, also one of
the original members of the Consolidated Realty Company, in which he is a
Director. Other interests with which he has identified himself are the Watts
Mine & Supply Company, in which he is a Director, and the Wolfskill Oil Company, of which he is President.
The Doctor is Medical Examiner in Los Angeles for the
Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, Maccabees, Fraternal Brotherhood and Fraternal Aid. Besides
belonging to these, he is a member of the Masons, thirty-second degree, and Al Malaikah Temple, of the Mystic Shrine, having taken all of
the Scottish Rite Degrees.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
15 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 675,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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