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DR. LYMAN BRUMBAUGH STOOKEY
STOOKEY, DR. LYMAN BRUMBAUGH, Professor of Physiology, Univ. of Sou. Cal., Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Belleville, Ill., July 30, 1878, the son of Dr. Lyman Polk Stookey and Louise (Brumbaugh) Stookey. Married Margaret Powell, granddaughter of Gen. W. H. Powell, U. S. A., at Belleville, Dec. 31, 1903. He received his early education in public schools of Belleville and was graduated from Yale in 1902 with A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. Held graduate scholarships in Physiology two years. Research Physiologist, N. Y. State Pathological Laboratory, 1902-04. Graduate student, Med. Dept., Univ. of Strassburg (Germany), 1904-06.
In 1906 he was given the Chair of Physiology in the Univ. of Sou. Cal., serving to date. Same year elected Fellow of the Amer. Assn. for Advancement of Science and appointed American Editor of the International Year Book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology. Author of over 40 researches in physiology and medicine, published in American and foreign medical journals and referred to in textbooks. Pathologist of Western States Life Ins. Co.
Member of following National societies: Amer. Physiology Soc., Amer. Soc. of Biological Chemists, Amer. Soc. of Experimental Medicine, Amer. Med. Assn., and University Club, Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 743,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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