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EDWARD
HEWITT GARRETT
GARRETT,
EDWARD HEWITT, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles,
Cal., was born at Wilmington, Cal.,
Nov. 21, 1872, the son of Robt. L. Garrett and Sarah
Elizabeth (McBride) Garrett. He married Josephine Eberle
at Los Angeles,
March 4, 1904, and they have a daughter, Elizabeth Katherine Garrett.
Dr.
Garrett graduated from the Los Angeles
High School in 1892, and after three
years with the Wells-Fargo Express Co., entered the Medical
College of the University of So.
Cal., graduating in 1899 with M.D. degree. He spent a year as
House Physician of the County Hospital, Fresno, Cal.; then went to Searchlight, Nev., as Surgeon for the Quartette Mining
Co. He next served the Golden Cross Mining Co., at Hedges, Cal. Since 1901 has been in practice in Los Angeles. From 1902 to
1905, he was Autopsy Surgeon for the Coroner of L. A. County. From 1907 to 1910
he was Police Surgeon and a member of the State Insanity Commission. Since
1906, has been Surgeon for the U. S. Dept. Of Justice and is Surg. and Med.
Examiner, Aetna Life Ins. Co. and is on visiting staff, Clara Barton
Hospital.
He
is a member of Ramona Parlor, N.S.G.W.; of Hollenbeck Lodge, F.&.A.M.; the Am. Med. Assn., and L. A. County and Cal. State Med. Socs.
Transcribed
11-9-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 802, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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