Los Angeles County
Biographies
JOHN Y. OLDHAM
OLDHAM, JOHN Y., Physician,
Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Newcastle, Henry county,
Ky., March 19, 1866, the son of William Bryan Oldham and Laura Anne
(Matthews) Oldham. He married Mary Stuart Flood, March 29, 1887, at
Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Oldham died May 10, 1910. There are two
children, John Henry and William Bryan Oldham. He married Mrs. Annie
Stuart Myrick at Los Angeles July 19, 1911. His maternal great
grandmother, Sarah McDowell, was a daughter of Major General Joseph McDowell of
the Revolutionary War, a sister of General Joseph McDowell of Ohio,
sister-in-law to Governor Allen Trimble of Ohio, cousin of Governor James
McDowell of Virginia, aunt of Governor John P. Gaines of Oregon,
sister-in-law of Colonel L. Ford of the United States army.
He was educated at Henry County College, at the Kentucky
State College, Lexington, Ky., at Central University of Richmond, Ky., and is a
graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine of Louisville, June, 1885.
In June, 1885, he entered the office of Dr. Dudley S.
Reynolds of Louisville as associate. In 1887 he moved to Lexington and opened
an office, confining his practice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and thoart (sic). He moved to Los Angeles in 1902 and
resumed his practice. He associated himself with
Dr. B. F. Church in 1905 and since the retirement of the latter,
in 1909, has been alone.
He is the assistant medical director of the Golden State
Life Insurance Company. He is a member of all the national and local medical
societies, the Lexington Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M.,
Merrick Lodge, No. 31, I. O. O. F., Ancient Essenic Order, No. 262, Past Exalted Ruler and life
member of the B. P. O. E., of Lexington, member of the California
Club.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
12 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 653,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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