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Biographies
ALBERT
WILLIAM MOORE
MOORE, ALBERT WILLIAM, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in that city July 21, 1876, the son of Robert Steele Moore and Lucy Campbell (Durett) Moore. He married Anna May Kuehn at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 3, 1904, and to them there have been born two children, Jack Kuehn and Richard William Moore. Dr. Moore, who was the third of a family of four children, comes of distinguished American stock, its members for generations having been prominent in professional and business lines. His uncle, Captain Charles Moore, served the Confederate cause in the Civil War.
Dr. Moore received his preliminary education in Los Angeles, graduating from the high school in the class of 1896. For four years after this he worked with a large commercial establishment in Los Angeles, and in 1900 took up the study of medicine in the University of Southern California Medical College. He was graduated in 1904 with the degree of M.D. He then went to Philadelphia and took post-graduate work in the Presbyterian and University Hospitals, receiving the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905.
For one year before his graduation from University of Southern California he was Assistant Police Surgeon of the city of Los Angeles, but resigned this upon receiving his degree and opened offices for practice.
In 1906, two years after his graduation, Dr. Moore was appointed a member of the Los Angeles Board of Health, under Mayor Harper, and during his tenure of office conducted one of the most notable campaigns in the interest of public health in the history of the city. As a member of the Pure Milk Commission, he led the fight of that body for the purification of the milk supply of the city and was instrumental in giving certified milk to Los Angeles.
In that crusade Dr. Moore devoted his own time to the inspection of dairies in and around Los Angeles and caused a complete reorganization of methods in many of them. This one regulation in the health rules of Los Angeles has had an important influence upon the public health, the mortality record among infants of the city being reduced to a point far below that of any municipality of the same size in the United States. Dr. Moore continued a member of the Board of Health until 1910.
In 1908 he was appointed a member of the Board of Medical Examiners of the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission and remained in that capacity until 1911. He is at present (1912) a member of the Board of Medical Examiners for the Public Schools of Los Angeles. In this capacity he has been overseer of thousands of children and to his careful examination and watchfulness is largely due the high standard of health in the public schools of Los Angeles. He is regarded as an expert on diseases of children and has devoted a large part of his professional career to the study of their ills and the treatment thereof. Aside from his public school work he has been physician to the Los Angeles Orphans’ Home for five years, and for three years was psysician (sic) to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Also, he was Dean of the Training School of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, until the early part of 1912.
At the present time (1912-13) he is surgeon in the Los Angeles district for the Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore and for the Continental Casualty Company of Illinois.
Dr. Moore is a member of the Public Health Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Society. He also belongs to the Medical Society of the State of California and the American Medical Association. He is a Thirty-Third Degree Mason, member of the Municipal League of Los Angeles, the University Club and the Native Sons of the Golden West, Ramona Chapter.
Transcribed
12-2-10 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 557, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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