Los Angeles County
Biographies
OSWALD MIDDLETON JUSTICE
JUSTICE, OSWALD MIDDLETON,
Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Llangollen,
Denvenshire, Wales, May 6, 1876, the son of
Philip Justice and Elizabeth (Pickering) Justice. He is a descendant of Lord
Clive, the brilliant young English soldier, who not only established British
domination in India by force of arms, but later laid the foundation of his
country’s present commercial supremacy in the Empire.
Dr. Justice received his primary education from private
tutors and followed with four years at Bedford Modern School, in England. He
then spent two years at Rugby, and at the age of fifteen, in company with
several other English lads, sailed for America. They landed at Halifax,
N. S., and from there went to a farm in Iowa, where Dr. Justice
remained a year.
In 1892 he went to Rochester, Minn., and took up the
study of medicine under the famous Mayo Brothers, noted throughout the
civilized world for surgical achievements. He received his degree in 1897, and
in 1898 was appointed interne at St. Mary’s Hospital, in Minneapolis. At
the end of a year he was appointed by the State Board of Control, Asst.
Physician of the Hospital for the Insane, St. Peter, Minn., a post he held for a year.
Upon leaving the service of the State, Dr. Justice
practiced for a time at Elysian, Minn., and in the fall of 1903 moved to Los
Angeles.
Dr. Justice is the holder of valuable oil and ranch lands
in California and also has mining interests in Sonora, Mexico, the latter being
operated by the Elaugaje Mining Co., of which he is
President and chief stockholder.
Dr. Justice is a member of the Mississippi Valley Medical
Association, the Masons, K. of P., Odd Fellows and the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
22 August 2011.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 731, International News Service,
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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