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LEWIS
BURROWS MORTON
MORTON,
LEWIS BURROWS, Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Davenport,
Ia., May 12, 1878, the son of
William M. Morton and Jane (Burrows) Morton. He married Caroline Ellsworth at Iowa Falls, Ia.,
Sept. 15, 1903. They have one child, Marcia Ellsworth Morton.
Dr.
Morton attended public schools and Ellsworth
College, at Iowa
Falls, and studied medicine at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1901 with the degree
of M.D. From 1901 to 1906, he was assistant to his
father, Chief Surgeon for the Iowa Short Line R.R. at Iowa Falls.
He then took post-graduate work at St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago,
as an interne and rejoined his father at Iowa Falls.
In
1909, Dr. Morton moved to Los Angeles
and has been in practice there since, specializing in surgical work. Among
other duties he is Attending Surgeon at the Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, and is Attending Gynecologist of Graves’
Dispensary, a part of the Los Angeles Med. Dept. of the University of California.
Dr.
Morton is a member of the Clinical and Pathological Society, Los
Angeles; L. A. County Med. Assoc. and Med. Soc. of the State of Cal. He belongs to the
University Club of Chicago, and Annandale Country Club, Los Angeles.
Transcribed
11-9-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 802, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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