Granville Mac Gowan

Background

Gowan, Granville Mac was born on April 12, 1857 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Son of Davis Garrett and Ellen von der Weyden (Nugent) M.

Education

Millersville (Pennsylvania) State Normal School. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1879. Post-graduate university of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, 1880-1884.

Career

Practiced, New York, 1884, 85. Moved to Los Angeles, 1886. Specialist in diseases of skin and genital and urinary organs, 1892-1900, genitourinary surgery, since 1900.

Professor genito-urinary surgery, University of California and University of Southern California Organizer of Los Angeles Health Department, serving as health commissioner 4 years, and as member Board of Health, 4 years.

Achievements

• Granville Mac Gowan has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Urological Association (president 1912-1913).

Connections

Married Lillie May Briggs, June 16, 1890. Children: Hilliard Vincent, Mary Eleanor.