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DR. REX DUNCAN

 

DUNCAN, REX DOWLER, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in North Platte, Neb., May 2, 1886, the son of Dr. Charles M. Duncan and Ella Elizabeth (Dowler) Duncan. His paternal grandfather was Col. John Duncan, one of the founders of Monmouth College, and his family was prominent during the Civil War, one uncle was awarded a bronze medal by Congress for gallantry during the war.

Dr Duncan received his early education in the public schools of Nebraska, studied medicine at Creighton University, Omaha, for two years, and located in Los Angeles in 1906. He entered the Medical Department of the University of California, received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1909. During his senior year he was undergraduate interne at the California Hospital and after graduation served at the Los Angeles County Hospital until appointed resident physician at the Sisters’ Hospital, Los Angeles.

January, 1910, Dr. Duncan was appointed Assistant Health Officer of Los Angeles and served a year when he resigned and entered into private practice. He was Professor of Laboratory Physiology in the University of Southern California Dental College, 1910-11, and is instructor in Clinical Medicine at the University. He is professor for Diseases of Children in the Los Angeles County Training School for Nurses, and a member of the visiting staff of the Los Angeles Hospital; he is also Medical Director of the “Benevolent and Protective Order of Incas.”

Dr. Duncan holds a commission as First Lieutenant in the 7th Regt. National Guards of California, and is a member of the State of California Medical Society, and Los Angeles Medical Society. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine, Phi Sigma and Phi Delta Chi.

 

Transcribed 9-1-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 785, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

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