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RALPH ROWLETT WILLIAMS

 

WILLIAMS, RALPH ROWLETT, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, born on Christmas Day, 1871. He is of Scotch-English descent, his ancestors having settled in Virginia before the Revolutionary War. He is the son of General Joseph Rowlett Williams and Jane Taylor (Wilkins) Williams. He married Hazel V. Kirkpatrick at Los Angeles, June 15, 1910.

Dr. Williams attended private schools until he was fourteen years of age, then entered the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. During 1888-89 he was a student at the College of Letters in California, and upon his removal to Los Angeles in 1890 he took up the study of medicine in the Medical College of the University of Southern California, being graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1893.

Immediately following his graduation, Dr. Williams began practice, in association with Dr. Granville MacGowan for eleven years, specializing in dermatology and genito-urinary diseases.

Dr. Williams occupies a position among the leaders of the profession of Southern California, and is Professor of Dermatology and Associate Professor of Urology in the Los Angeles Medical Department of the University of California.

Dr. Williams is a member of the visiting staffs of the Pacific, Columbia and Los Angeles County Hospitals.

His clubs and associations are: California Club, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Country Club, American Urological Association, Sixth International Congress of Dermatology, American Medical Association, California, Southern California and Los Angeles County Medical Societies.

 

Transcribed 10-19-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 794, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

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