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ANDREW STEWART LOBINGIER
LOBINGIER, ANDREW STEWART,
Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Laurelville, Pennsylvania,
where he was born December 22, 1862. His parents were Jacob Lobingier and Lillian Findley (Stewart) Lobingier;
among his notable ancestors were Christopher Lobingier,
colonial Huguenot, and Judge John Lobingier.
Dr. Lobingier was married on
November 2, 1889, to Miss Kate Reynolds at Mt. Pleasant,
Pennsylvania, and one daughter, Gladys, was born to them.
As a boy, Dr. Lobingier was
prepared for college at the Mt. Pleasant Institute at Mt. Pleasant,
Pennsylvania, 1880-83. He entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
where he took his A. B. degree in 1886. Immediately on completing his
regular course at the University, he took up the study of medicine and surgery,
completing it and taking his degree of M. D. in 1889.
At the conclusion of his college career, Dr. Lobingier went to Denver, Colorado, and opened an office
for the practice of medicine. Soon he was elected to the professorship of
Bacteriology and Pathology in the Gross Medical College. Two years later he was
elected to the chair of Pathology and Surgical Pathology in the University of
Colorado at Denver and was a member of the faculty of that institution for
eleven years.
During that time he successively held the chairs of
Clinical Surgery and Chief of the Surgical Clinic (1893), Principles of Surgery
and Clinical Surgery and Surgeon to the University Hospital (1896). He was
Chief of the Department of Surgery in the University for the subsequent six
years, but resigned on account of impaired health, April, 1902, and went to Los
Angeles.
In Denver he was a charter member of the Denver City
Troop and Acting Surgeon of the Second Colorado Regiment during the Leadville
riots. He was also treasurer of the troop and for several years secretary of
the Colorado State Medical Society.
In June, 1902, he attended the British Medical
Association meeting in Manchester, England, then spent the summer and autumn in
the study of surgery with the leading surgeons of Heidelberg, Berlin, Paris,
Vienna, and London, after which he returned to Los Angeles to engage in
surgical practice. In 1906, he devoted a second period of study under the great
surgeons of Europe.
Dr. Lobingier takes a very
natural and proper pride in his ancestry, which, on his father’s side is of
Huguenot stock and on his mother’s Scotch. His paternal ancestors were driven
from their homes in France as a result of the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes, which removed their guarantees of safety and religious freedom.
In the wide-spread exodus from France which followed, and
which extended to England, and to the United States,
Dr. Lobingier’s paternal forbears selected the United
States as their refuge, and sailed for America in 1727. Arriving in this
country, they made their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The original
colonist of the family was Christopher Lobingier. His
son of the same name was very active in the Revolution, and in the founding of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin,
and was a member of the first conference committee, the committee to raise
troops, a member of the constitutional convention, and a member of the first
legislature of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lobingier is a member of
the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, L. A. County
Medical Society, Southern California Medical Association, California State
Medical Society, American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine,
L. A. Academy of Sciences and the National Geographical Society. His
clubs are: The Cal. University, Valley Country, Annandale Country, and Gamut
Clubs of Los Angeles.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
11 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 647,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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