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DR. JOHN WESLEY TRUEWORTHY
TRUEWORTHY, JOHN WESLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born at Troy, New York, May 28, 1843, the son of William and Mary (Finney) Trueworthy.
He was left an orphan at the age of seven and was reared on the farm of a friend in Illinois. He attended the public schools of Montgomery County, Illinois, and Hillsboro Academy, at Hillsboro, Ill., until he was seventeen years old, then, at the first call for three months’ volunteers by President Lincoln, he enlisted. After serving his time he was honorably discharged and did not re-enlist for the reason that he was not eligible owing to disability caused from exposure and sickness during his service in the army.
Dr. Trueworthy studied medicine at the University of Michigan and at the Rush Medical at Chicago, graduating from the latter in 1865.
He practiced at Donaldson, Ill., at Emporia, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo. He organized the Central Bank of Kansas City and was its president two years. In the year 1892 he moved to Los Angeles, and there has been in active practice since.
Offices he has held are: County physician and coroner Lyon county, Kans.; member school board, Emporia; president and director, Los Angeles Public Library. Dr. Trueworthy was a personal friend of Grover Cleveland, who appointed him U. S. Pension Examiner at Emporia.
He is a member of the California, University and Sierra Clubs; belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Sequoia League, the Archaeological Society, the Shriners, Knights Templar, the Gamut Club, College Men’s Association and University of Michigan Alumni Association. He was at one time president of the Academy of Medicine of Los Angeles, and belongs to all the important national, State and local medical societies.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 452,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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