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MERLYN
GEORGE HENRY, M.D.
Dr. Merlyn George Henry, a member of the medical profession of Los Angeles has achieved a reputation of which any man might well be proud. The profession of medicine is one which, if it be conscientiously followed, involves an enormous amount of self-sacrifice, and it is a source of the greatest blessing to others. So heavily should these considerations weigh, that it would be difficult to imagine a return from the community to its physicians that would balance the debt it owes them for all the good received. Hard work, loss of sleep, and a constant demand upon one’s powers of sympathy are the physician’s offerings to humanity. All these are the essential things that a true and worthy physician brings with him, a true and worthy physician such as the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this tribute. It is unnecessary to add that as a physician and surgeon he is held in the highest estimation by his fellow-citizens, as the record of his daily life is filled with evidences of this fact. In all professions, but more especially the medical, there are exalted heights to which genius itself dares scarcely soar, and which can only be gained after long years of patient, arduous and unremitting toil and inflexible and unfaltering courage. To this proud eminence we may safely state that Merlyn George Henry will rise.
Dr. Merlyn George Henry is a native if Wisconsin, born in Belmont county, August 10, 1903, the son of J. T. and Marian (Sewell) Henry. He attended the public schools of the state of his birth and received his A.B. degree at the University of Wisconsin, Class of 1926, where he also obtained his Master of Science Degree in 1927. Dr. Henry then entered Rush Medical College at the University of Chicago where he received his M.D. degree in 1929, being awarded the highest honors of his class, the traditional Benjamin Rush medal. During the period 1928-29 while studying for his M.D. degree, Dr. Henry was an active member of the teaching staff at the University of Illinois, conducting a class in physiology, also serving as an instructor at Rush Medical College. Dr. Henry served his internship at the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, and the Los Angeles General Hospital where he completed a surgical internship and immediately following the period of internship he was called to Chicago to accept an appointment of house surgeon at the University of Chicago Presbyterian Hospital, which institution conferred upon him a teaching fellowship in surgery. The latter part of 1931 he returned to Los Angeles to specialize in surgery where he has since practiced with marked success.
January, 1935 he was asked to become Medical Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Water and Power Bureau and under his charge the newly founded Medical Department was organized. Dr. Henry maintains his office also in the Wilshire Medical building in association with Dr. Charles T. Sturgeon one of the outstanding members of the medical profession of the Pacific Coast.
Dr. Henry is acting Surgeon of the Good Hope Clinic, on the staff of the Los Angeles General Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, instructor at the Bishop Johnson College of Nursing and also instructor in surgery U.S.C. Medical School, and as well maintains a large private clientele.
His fraternal membership includes Sigma Xi National Research Society of the University of Illinois; Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society, Rush Medical College, University of Chicago; and professionally he is a member of Los Angeles County Medical Association, California State Medical Association and American Medical Association, while his social membership includes the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Hollywood Athletic Club and allied clubs.
He maintains his residence in the Hermoyne Apartments of Hollywood.
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5-24-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 715-716,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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