Background
Pottenger, Francis Marion was born on September 27, 1869 in Sater, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas and Hannah Ellen (Sater) Pottenger.
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Francis Marion Pottenger
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Bachelor of Philosophy, Otterbein University, 1892, the Master of Philisophy, 1897, Master of Arts, 1905, Doctor of Laws, 1909. Medical College of Ohio, 1892-1893. Doctor of Medicine Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1894 (highest honors).
Post-graduate, New York, 1900, and went abroad for study four times.
Career
L. Practiced general medicine at Norwood, O., 1894-1895, Monrovia, California, 1895-1901. Specialized in diseases of chest, Monrovia and Los Angeles, since 1901. Established Pottenger Sanatorium for diseases of lungs and throat, 1903, of which is owner and medical director Assistant chair of surgery Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1894.
Lecturer on diseases of chest, and climatology University of Southern California, 1903-1904, professor clinical medicine and diseases of chest, 1905-1909, 1914-1920 and 1931-1942.
Professor emeritus since 1942. Consultant, Los Angeles County, Collis P. and Howard Huntington Memorial hospitals.
Vice president California Board Public Health, 1940-1943, consultant tuberculosis control California Board Health since 1943. Chairman tuberculosis advising committee Department of Charities, Los Angeles Company Founder, president Southern California Anti-Tuberculosis League, 1902-1906, chief helping station, 1906-1908.
Distinguished Alumnus award Otterbein College, 1952.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Geography Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians (councillor 1916-1923, regent 1917-1940, vice president 1929-1931, president 1932). Member Los Angeles County Medical Association (president 1906-1907), Los Angeles Academy Medicine, Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society (president 1923-1924), Southern California Medical Society (president 1912-1913), American Therapeutic Society (president 1914-1915), Mississippi Valley Medical Association (president 1917-1919), California Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Climatological and Clinical Association, Pacific Interurban Clinical. Club (chairman 1931-1932), Association for Study Internal Secretions (secretary 1917-1935, president 1935-1937), Pacific Geography Society (regent), American Public Health Association, American Trudeau Society, California Tuberculosis Association (president 1931, director 1930-1940), National Tuberculosis Association, Los Angeles County Tuberculosis and Health Association (president 1939-1941, director since 1924, president emeritus since 1946), Trudeau Society Los Angeles (president 1935), Eugenics Society United States of America, American Academy Political and Social Science, Science League American, American Academy Tuberculosis Physicians, American College Chest Physicians, American Academy Applied Nutrition (life), American Society for Research in Psychosomatic Problems, Gerontological Society, Institute American Genealogy, Society Colonial Wars, South.R.
Member Tuberculosis.
Society Scotland, First International Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis., International Union Against Tuberculosis. Club: California.
Connections
Married Carrie Burtner, 1894 (died 1898). Married second, Adalaide Gertrude Babbitt, August 29, 1900. Married 3d, Caroline Lacy, September 15, 1917.
Children: Francis Marion, Robert Thomas, Adelaide M.
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Nationality
American