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ALBERT
SOILAND, MD.
SOILAND, ALBERT, Roentgenologist, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Stavanger, Norway, May 5, 1873, the son of Edward Soiland and Axelina (Halverson) Soiland. He married Dagfine Berner Svendsen at Stavanger, Sept. 17, 1902.
Dr. Soiland began his education in Norway, but his family having moved to Chicago, Ill., when he was about ten years of age, he completed his studies in this country. He entered the University of Illinois Medical Dept., but moved to Los Angeles later and was graduated from the Medical College of the Univ. of Sou. Cal. in 1900 with the degree of M.D.
Dr. Soiland was surgeon-in-chief to the Spencer & Crowell Lumber Company, in Louisiana, for a year, and returned to Los Angeles in 1901. Early in his career he took up the study of the roentgen X-Ray and was a pioneer in the electro-therapeutic branch of medicine. For several years he has been Instructor in X-Ray and electro-therapeutics in the Los Angeles Department of the University of California Medical College, is Roentgenologist to the leading hospitals of Los Angeles and Radiographer to various railroads. He has written liberally on scientific topics and has twice gone abroad for special study. He received a certificate from Finsen Institute, at Copenhagen, in 1905. Dr. Soiland also spent the year of 1910 in European study and special work.
Dr. Soiland is a member of the Amer. Medical Ass’n., Med. Soc. of the State of California, L. A. County Med. Soc., L. A. Clinical & Pathological Soc. and the American Roentgen Ray Society. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, Elk and member of Phi Rho Sigma fraternity. His clubs are the South Coast Yacht, California, Gamut and Los Angeles Athletic, of Los Angeles, and the Tuna Club, of Avalon, Catalina Island.
Transcribed
2-24-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 600, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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