Los Angeles County
Biographies
PHILIP B. RIGGINS
RIGGINS, PHILIP B.,
Physician, Los Angeles, California, was born January 27, 1877, at
Sheffield, Iowa, the son of Paden B. Riggins and Lydia (Loomis) Riggins.
He married Kathryn Nisbet
September 17, 1898, at Atlanta, Georgia. There are two children,
Philip Byron and Prentice Lanier Riggins.
He received his primary education at the Sheffield
schools. Removing to Santa Monica, in 1893, he graduated from the high schools
of that city the same year. He attended Stanford University and graduated from
the legal department in the year 1897.
He went to Atlanta, Georgia, for a time and there
married. He then went to Los Angeles in 1902, and, choosing medicine as his
profession, attended the University of California School of
Medicine until he received his qualifying degree in 1907.
He at once began practice. He is at the present time
chief surgeon of the large firm of Shattuck-Edinger,
Railroad Contractors, and assistant surgeon of the Pacific Electric Railway,
the Los Angeles Railway, the Pacific Light and Power Company and Fairchilds-Gilmore-Wilton Company.
To all of these firms he is of special value because of
his legal knowledge. He belongs to the better known clubs of his city.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
16 October 2011.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 704, International News Service,
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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