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JOHN TAYLOR STEWART
STEWART, JOHN TAYLOR, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California,
was born in Kentucky
in 1850, the son of W. H. Stewart and Elizabeth (Webb) Stewart. His father was of Scotch ancestry and his
mother a member of an old Southern family.
Dr. Stewart
began his education in the public schools of Kentucky,
and at the conclusion of the course went to Kentucky
University at Lexington where he finished his literary
studies. Following this he spent four
years in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, at Cincinnati, O., from which he received his
degree of M. D. He was also elected to
the Chair of Anatomy by his college.
Later he spent a year at Jefferson
Medical College,
in Philadelphia,
from which he received the degree of Medical Doctor, and he also spent one
college year at the Bellevue College of New York. He has spent much time in post-graduate study
in New York and Philadelphia
and has enjoyed, valuable opportunities in such great medical centers as Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and Paris. He practiced in his profession in Kentucky for ten years and in Los Angeles since 1892.
He is a
member of the Am. Med. Assn., the State Med. Soc. of Cal., and is an ex-member of the Kentucky
State Med. Soc.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on 9 January 2012.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 903,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2012 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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