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FRED C. SHURTLEFF
SHURTLEFF, FRED C., Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born at Somerset, Massachusetts, October 18, 1867, the son of Frank A. Shurtleff, M. D., and Abbie (Davis) Shurtleff. William A. Shurtleff, the first ancestor of the name in America, came over with the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620, in the Mayflower. He was the first practicing surveyor on American soil. Dr. Shurtleff married Wencesloa Flores, November 1, 1897, at Los Angeles. They have one son, Frederico L. Shurtleff.
Dr. Shurtleff studied in the Fall River, Mass., high school, and at the University of the City of New York. He practiced at the Long Island College Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, where he received his M. D. in 1891, and then was professor of surgery at the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons.
After three years he removed to Indian Territory and was railway surgeon for the Santa Fe and the Rock Island and Choctaw railroads, and deputy sheriff and emergency surgeon for the man-hunting posses of the territory. He moved to Los Angeles in 1896, and opened an office for the practice of medicine. He also went into the cattle business and was one of the partners of the Rancho Casa Loma of San Jacinto and of the S. & M. Cattle Ranch. He has a long lease of 19,000 acres of fine grazing land in Orange county, with never less than a thousand fine cattle.
He is a former vice president of the Los Angeles county Medical Assn. and a former president of the Los Angeles Academy of Medicine. He is also the organizer of the Vaquero Club and a Mason.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 521,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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