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DR. CLARENCE E. STONER
STONER, DR. CLARENCE E., Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Maryland, born in Frederick County. He is the son of Ephraim Stoner and Margaret (Smith) Stoner. He married Gertrude C. Mead in Los Angeles, March 26, 1896.
Dr. Stoner studied in the schools of his native town and was graduated from the high school in 1887. Three years later he removed to Los Angeles, California, and entered the Medical Department of the University of California. He finished the course in three years and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1893.
Immediately upon leaving college, Dr. Stoner began the practice of his profession in Los Angeles, becoming associated with Dr. Henry Worthington, a pioneer practitioner of Los Angeles City and County. He remained with Dr. Worthington for four or five years. At the end of that period Dr. Worthington died.
Dr. Stoner has continued in the practice of general medicine and surgery with especial attention to sanitation and preventive medicine.
He expects within the near future to spend a year abroad studying and visiting the clinics of London, Paris and Berlin.
Dr. Stoner is interested in the Mt. Diablo Oil Company of Los Angeles, and for more than ten years has been a director of that company. Another organization in which he is a heavy stockholder is the California National Life Insurance Company of San Diego, California. He is chief medial examiner for the company and other insurance companies.
Dr. Stoner is a member of numerous medical and scientific societies, and in addition belongs to the Elks and Fraternal Order of Eagles, Sierra Madre, and Jonathan Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 520,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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