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EDWARD
MARSHALL PALLETTE, M. D.
One
of the well-known representatives of the medical profession in southern
California is Dr. Edward Marshall Pallette, who has been actively engaged in
practice in Los Angeles since 1898, giving special attention to
gynecology. He was born in Wichita,
Kansas, January 13, 1874, a son of Samuel Drew and Caroline Elizabeth
(Cartwright) Pallette, and has been a resident of Los Angeles since July,
1889. Northwestern University conferred
upon him the degree of Ph. B. in 1894 and that of Ph. M. in 1895, and in the
former year he was an Oliver Marcy scholar of Northwestern University at the
Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In 1898 he was graduated from the College of
Medicine of the University of Southern California with the degree of M. D. He did graduate work at the New York
Polyclinic in 1901 and at the universities of London, Vienna and Berlin in the
years 1902, 1909 and 1924, respectively.
Dr.
Pallette began his professional career as an assistant instructor of zoology at
Northwestern University in 1894-95. He
became a member of the teaching staff of the Los Angeles high school, serving
as instructor in biology from 1896 until 1898, while during the same two-year
period he was an instructor in histology and embryology at the College of
Medicine of the University of Southern California. Aside from his private practice he served as
assistant health officer of Los Angeles in 1898-99, was a member of the Los
Angeles city board of health in 1905-06, held the chair of professor of
physiology at the College of Dentistry of the University of Southern California
from 1900 to 1912 and was also lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at the
Training School for Nurses of St. Vincent’s Hospital. He was examiner for the California
Lunacy Commission during the decade between 1905 and 1915 and is a member of
the staffs of St. Vincent’s, Hollywood, French and California Lutheran
Hospitals, having formerly served as president of the first named. His military record covers service as a
captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army at the time of the World
War. He was surgeon at Letterman General
Hospital at the Presidio in San Francisco and also served as surgeon at Camp
Crane, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He fills
the official position of vice president of the Los Angeles County Medical
Holding Corporation and since January, 1932, has been vice president of the
California State Board of Public Health.
He is an ex-president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, a
director of the Public Health League of California and a member of the
president’s advisory committee of the Medical School of the University of
Southern California.
Dr.
Pallette’s high standing in professional ranks is
manifest in his various affiliations. He
is a trustee of the Medical Society of the State of California, a fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, and was speaker of the house of
delegates (1929-36) of the California State Medical Association of which
he was elected president in May, 1935, and a fellow of the American Medical
Association. He is an ex-president of
the Los Angeles County Medical Society and likewise has membership in the Los
Angeles Surgical Society, the Los Angeles Obstetrical and Gynecological
Society, of which he has also been president, the Los Angeles Clinical and
Pathological Society and the Southern California Medical alumni, of which he
was formerly president. Moreover, he is
an honorary member of the Hollywood Academy of Medicine and the International
Medical Club. Dr. Pallette is an
ex-president of the California State Society of the Sons of the Revolution and
a member of the Institute of American Genealogy. His name is likewise on the membership rolls
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he belongs to
the following Greek letter societies:
Delta Tau Delta, Theta Nu Epsilon, Nu Sigma Nu, and Psi Omega.
On
the 16th of September, 1903, Dr. Pallette was united in marriage to Mary
Elizabeth Brown, of Kernville, California.
Their children are: Edward
Choate, Warren Sumner, Drew Brown and Elizabeth Delight. His is a Knights Templar Mason and member of
the Mystic Shrine.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 449-451,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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