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SAMUEL J.
MATTISON
MATTISON, SAMUEL J., Physician and Surgeon, Pasadena, California, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, February 17, 1875, the son of Samuel J. Mattison and Catherine (Jennings) Mattison. He married Ruth Brooks at Pasadena, California, February 27, 1911.
Dr. Mattison comes from an ancestry honored in the history of the United States. The men of the family, while not often achieving distinction of the kind that attracts the public attention, have always done their patriotic duty. They have fought against the Indians in the days before the Revolution, and with their axes they helped clear the forests of the frontier.
The name of Mattison is found in the list of those who fought for freedom against England, and also among those who enlisted to fight in the Civil War. Every generation has carried on the tradition of good breeding, education and refinement.
Dr. Mattison attended the public schools of Baltimore. After completing his studies in these he went to work as an accountant in the auditing department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway at Baltimore. He held various places in the auditing department for six years. He next was an accountant with the Southern Railway at Washington, D.C., during two years.
While he was at Washington he entered the medical department of Columbian, now known as George Washington University. He studied while he attended to his duties as accountant. After completing his first year, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the Medical Department of the Northwestern University. From this institution he received his medical degree in June, 1904.
He held the post of interne with the Lakeside Hospital of Chicago while a student at Northwestern University, and for several months he was externe at St. Mary’s Hospital, at Chicago.
He went to Pasadena, California, his present home, the month following his graduation, in July, 1904, and at once began the practice of his profession.
He is a surgeon in addition to being a general practitioner. He is a persistent student, and still devotes a great deal of time to investigation and to the learning of what others have done before him. In his seven years in Southern California he has built up a wide clientele, and is family physician to a number of the famous families of Pasadena. He has already been called as consulting physician. He is on the staff of the Pasadena Hospital.
While at Baltimore he was a member of the Ariel Rowing Club, one of the famous athletic organizations of the United States. He was one of the oarsmen and took part in a number of notable contests. He is an all-round athlete, and still spends as much time as he can spare in outdoor sports and recreations. He is an ardent automobilist and belongs not only to the Automobile Club of Southern California, but to the American Automobile Association as well.
He is interested in public affairs, particularly those that concern his city. He is a member of the Pasadena Board of Trade and of the Tournament of Roses Association, an organization of public-spirited citizens which on each New Year’s Day gives a flower festival, unique because of its use of real flowers in midwinter.
He is a member of a number of the Pasadena clubs, notably the Valley Hunt Club and the Pasadena Athletic Club, of which latter club he is a director. In his college days he was a member of the A.K.K. He belongs to most of the important medical societies. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the California State Medical Association, Los Angeles County Medical Association, Southern California Medical Association and Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
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12-6-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 878, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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