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LUTHER MILTON POWERS, M.D.
POWERS, LUTHER MILTON, City Health Commissioner, Los Angeles, Cal., born
in New Hanover
County, N. C., April 5, 1853, son of
William Powers and Lucy J. (Murray)
Powers. He married Mary E. Stevenson at Plymouth, N. C., Nov. 28,
1881, and to them were born four children-Anna (Mrs. E. F. Keller), George D.,
Lucy and William M. Powers.
Dr. Powers
received primary education in his native county and in Wake Forrest
College (N. C.). Read
medicine with Drs. A. D. McDonald and W. J. Love, and in 1874 entered
Washington University School of Medicine, at Baltimore.
Graduated in 1877, with honors of his class. Practiced in Plymouth,
N. C., attended Bellevue Medical College (N. Y.), for post-graduate work in
1881; College of Physicians and Surgeons (N. Y.), 1884,
and New York Polyclinic, in 1885.
Practiced
in North Carolina
during this time and for a year after.
In 1886 moved to Norfolk,
Neb. Went to Los
Angeles in 1887.
He was appointed City Health Officer in 1893, served to 1895 and was
reappointed in 1897, serving since.
Los Angeles ranks with
the healthiest cities of the world, and that is due, greatly to the methods and
safeguards installed by Dr. Powers, who for many years has held prominent place
among the world’s scientists. In 1902,
he was chosen by John Hay, Secretary of State, as Pacific
Coast representative to the
International Congress of Hygiene of the American Republics,
at Washington D. C.
Dr. Powers
is a member of the Am. Med Ass’n., L. A. County Med. Soc., Cal. Med. Soc., Med.
Soc. of the State of Cal.,
and was member of the N. C. Med. Soc. He
is a Mason, member of the Independent Order of Foresters and L. A. Chamber of
Commerce and various other organizations.
Transcribed
by Michele Y. Larsen 26 October 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 816,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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