Los Angeles County
Biographies
TITIAN J. COFFEY
COFFEY, TITIAN J., Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1874, the son of Henry T. Coffey and Frances J. (Baldwin) Coffey. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. He married Miss Eva Elizabeth Keating, March 30, 1909, at Los Angeles, California. There is one son, Marvin Keating Coffey.
Dr. Coffey attended the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minnesota, during the years 1891 and 1892. In the latter year he moved to Peoria, Illinois, and there attended the high school, from which he graduated in the year 1894. Moving to Chicago, he was a student at the Northwestern University Medical Department between the years 1894 and 1897. In the latter year he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, California, and registered at the Medical Department of the University of Southern California, where he studied during the terms of 1897 and 1898, and was awarded his degree of Doctor of medicine June 2 of the latter year. He took a post-graduate course in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania the following year, graduating with advanced honors June 15, 1899.
While he was studying he was also getting hospital experience. During the year 1898 he spent several months as interne at the Los Angeles County Hospital.
In order to master some special problems in medicine he went to Chicago five years later (1903), and served as interne at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital for several months.
He returned to Los Angeles after his course at the University of Pennsylvania, and opened offices for the practice of general medicine and surgery, and soon established a firm reputation, both professionally and socially. He is chief of staff at the present time of the Obstetric Department of the Los Angeles County Hospital. Study of the means to further the public health has appealed to him especially. He has investigated the problem of the proper sanitation of cities and of housing.
Los Angeles has recognized his services along these lines, and he is at the present time Chairman of the Los Angeles Housing Commission. This organization he helped to found in February, 1906. It concerns itself directly with the proper construction of residences, factories, office buildings and business houses, so that the health of the occupants may not be endangered, and one of its chief functions is to bring its influence to bear on the legislative bodies which have these matters directly under their control. He has gained even national recognition for his disinterested labors along this line, and has been elected one of the directors of the National Housing Association. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Juvenile Improvement Association.
He has also made a special study of tuberculosis, and has been elected a member of the board of directors of the California Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
His activity in medical and professional circles is evidenced by the memberships which he holds in medical societies, of which the following are the most prominent: The American Medical Association, the State Medical Society of California, the Medical Society of Southern California, the Los Angeles County Medical Society, the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, and the Los Angeles Academy of Science.
The University of California has recognized his learning by appointing him to the position of Assistant Professor of Obstetrics in its medical department.
Dr. Coffey holds membership in the University Club, the City Club and the Municipal League.
He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles.
Transcribed 11-5-09 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 348, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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