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HARRY E. KAPLAN, M. D.
A physician of experience, ability
and thorough equipment, Dr. Harry E. Kaplan has a well deserved reputation
throughout San Joaquin County. He is one
of the progressive members of his profession, and besides attending to his
private practice is also interested in movements to advance the standard of
excellence and efficiency of his fellow practitioners throughout the state.
Dr. Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New
York, March 17, 1893, and received his preliminary education in the grammar and
high schools of New York City; later he entered the University of New York and
the Bellevue Medical College of New York City, and in 1917 received his M. D.
degree from Fordham University. He then
entered the emergency service of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City;
then became house surgeon at the Long Island College Hospital. During the World War he was commissioned a
lieutenant of the junior grade in the medical corps of the U. S. Navy and after
eleven months of service was made lieutenant of senior grade and was attached
to the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn, New York, where he remained for another
eleven months; then was at the naval training station at Pelham Bay, New York. He also served on the U. S. Transport Troy,
one of the largest transports in the navy, carrying 6,000 troops, and Dr.
Kaplan made three round trips to France; later he was attached to the naval air
station at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, receiving his honorable discharge on
September 18, 1919.
Dr. Kaplan then came to California
and was in the U. S. Public Health Service in the Marine Hospital at San
Francisco, and on January 1, 1922, came to Stockton to take charge of the
practice of Dr. S. F. Priestley while he was absent from the city. He is now in practice for himself, with
offices in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building, and is a member of the
state and county medical societies, a member of the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States; a member of Karl Ross Post of the American
Legion, and Lunetta Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. He joined the Arcana
Blue Lodge of Masons, No. 246, in New York City, of which he is still a member,
and is also a member of the Sciots. He
also belongs to the Iroquois Tribe, Independent Order of Red Men of Stockton,
and the B’nai B’rith Lodge of Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1627. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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