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GEORGE H. KRESS
KRESS, GEORGE H., Physician, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Cincinnati, O., December 23, 1874, the son of Henry Kress and Salome (Kern) Kress. He married Elizabeth Hamilton Hill, a college classmate, June 16, 1903, at Cincinnati.
He graduated from Hughes High School, Cincinnati, in 1892; received his degree, after four years of study, from the University of Cincinnati in the year 1896, and then took up the study of medicine at the same university. He received the degree of M. D. in 1899. Dr. Kress at once became resident physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati; appointed assistant surgeon at the National Soldiers’ Hospital, Dayton, O., 1900-1903; went to Los Angeles to engage in private practice. Conspicuous in medical affairs and prominent in fight against tuberculosis. Chairman of the State Tuberculosis Commission to investigate tuberculosis in California. Member of all the important medical and scientific societies; has written prolifically on health subjects, having received the gold and silver medals from the International Tuberculosis Congress for educational leaflets, 1908. Secretary of Faculty and Professor of Hygiene, Los Angeles department, State University of California Medical School. Member, University Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 545,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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