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HENRY OWEN EVERSOLE
EVERSOLE, HENRY OWEN, Physician, Los Angeles, California, was born at his father’s country place, near Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 1877. He is the son of Miller Eversole and Louisa (MacNaughten) Eversole, and married Mary Sherman Clark, second daughter of Eli P. Clark, at Los Angeles, September 15, 1910.
The doctor’s grandfather, Henry Eversole, left his Virginia home early in the nineteenth century and, with his family, settled in the broad rich farm lands of central Ohio. Miller Eversole, his youngest son, married Louisa, the third daughter of Owen and Susan MacNaughten. Owen MacNaughten’s parents came from Scotland to New York and later went to Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the young Scotchman, Owen, met and married Susan Baker, whose family estate is now a part of the city of Philadelphia.
Miller Eversole’s youth was spent mostly in the country and at the age of sixteen years he began teaching school. A few years later found him in college and then teaching languages in Pleasanton Academy, near Lancaster, Ohio. After his marriage he devoted most of his time to managing his country estates. On July 4, 1878, the first anniversary of is son’s birth, he was killed by lightning, leaving the doctor as his only child.
Dr. Eversole’s early education was under the direction of his grandfather, Owen MacNaughten, until the death of the latter, after which he had the advantage of tutors and travel until he reached the age of twenty-one. At this time the Spanish-American War fired his enthusiasm and he sailed from San Francisco, August 11, 1898, for the Philippines, attached to the Volunteer Engineer Corps of the U. S. Army. He contracted fever in Honolulu, and it is due, probably, to his experience in the temporary hospitals at Honolulu and the long years he spent in search of health, almost irretrievably lost, that he became interested in the study of medicine; for in 1904 Dr. Eversole entered the Medical Department of the University of California. He was graduated in the class of 1908 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and after this he did post-graduate work in the clinics of Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities, until he left for France to do special work in the clinics and laboratories of Drs. Cohenheim, Klemperer and Pick in Berlin. This was followed by one year’s study in the University of Vienna, interspersed with practical work in the clinics of Dr. Schlessinger, Kovacs, VonNoorden, Braun, Finger, Cohn and Sterk. Later, he spent several months in the laboratory of Dr. Carl Spengler, the celebrated specialist of Davos Platz, Switzerland’s greatest health resort, at original research under his personal direction.
Returning to Los Angeles, he entered upon private practice, devoting the greater time to the study of tuberculosis and at the same time continuing the research begun in Europe.
In the spring of 1911, Dr. Eversole and his bride returned to Europe, where he spent six months in the clinics of Vienna, Munich and Davos Platz. He returned to Los Angeles in November of the same year and resumed his practice.
Dr Eversole, who is engaged in a conscientious effort to eradicate tuberculosis, conducts a free clinic in Los Angeles to which he devotes two days of each week. He has written various articles on the subject and one of the most important of his works is the translation into English of the researches of Dr. Spengler, who has devoted his life to the study of Immunity and Tuberculosis.
Dr. Eversole is a member of the various medical and scientific organizations. These include the American Medical Association, California State Medical Society and the Los Angeles County Medical Society.
He is also a member of the University Club, Nu Sigma Nu, and Theta Nu Epsilon.
Transcribed 3-19-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 215, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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