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HOVEY LEARNED SHEPHERD
SHEPHERD, HOVEY LEARNED, Physician, Los Angeles, California, was born in Belfast, Maine, August 16, 1869, the son of Freeman Weeks Shepherd and of Martha B. (Dodge) Shepherd, both descendants of English stock that settled in Massachusetts and Maine several generations ago.
The schools of Belfast, Maine, made the first contribution to his education, and when he had finished the primary grades, he was sent to Kents Hill Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine, where he finished with the class of 1888. And then he was sent to that hub of education, Boston. After four years in the College of Liberal Arts of Boston University, he was awarded the degree of Ph. B. He acquired his medical education in the School of Medicine of the same university, getting his M.D. in 1895.
He made his first venture in Springfield, Massachusetts. Then, in 1897, he moved to Winchester, Mass. He was appointed lecturer in materia medica at Boston University, an appointment which was a recognition of his brilliant scholarship while a student in that institution. The university advanced him to an associate professorship in the year 1900, and he held the position until his removal to Los Angeles in the year 1909.
At Los Angeles he associated himself with the late Dr. E. C. Buell, and he has succeeded him in his practice. He is the medical examiner and temporary General Agent for California for the Empire Life Insurance Company of Seattle, Washington.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, of the Los Angeles County Medical Society, the Southern California Medical Society, the California State Medical Society, an of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He belongs to the Sierra Madre and the Gamut Clubs, is a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 382, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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