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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Joseph Widney, Haldor Lillenas, Olive Winchester, Fred A. Hillery, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Les Parrott, Phineas F. Bresee, Thomas Jay Oord, Timothy L. Smith, J. B. Chapman, Fred J. Shields, R. Wayne Gardner, Bryan Stone, Floyd W. Nease, Dan Boone, William M. Greathouse, Ralph Earle, Jr., J. E. L. Moore, Samuel Young, Talmadge Johnson, Jim Bond, Russell V. DeLong, Orville Jenkins, Donald Owens, Edgar Ellyson, Cecil R. Paul, John E. Riley, Roy T. Williams, Gideon B. Williamson, Jerry D. Porter, Orval J. Nease, Hiram F. Reynolds, Richard S. Taylor, J. K. Warrick, Hugh C. Benner, John W. Goodwin, Charles H. Strickland, William J. Prince, Paul Cunningham, Edward F. Walker, Jesse Middendorf, William C. Wilson, Daniel Vanderpool, Nina Gunter, Hardy Powers, Michael Lodahl, Joseph G. Morrison, Howard Miller, V. H. Lewis, Eugene Stowe, James Diehl, Raymond Hurn, Jerald Johnson, W. T. Purkiser, George Coulter, Stan Toler. Excerpt: Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 - July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, clergyman, entrepreneur-philanthropist, proto-environmentalist, prohibitionist, racial theorist, and prolific author. He was the second President of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California and the founding dean of the USC School of Medicine. He was one of the founders and first general superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene, and primary founder of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. One of the "most conspicuous Southern Californians of his generation," Widney was a cultural leader in Los Angeles for nearly seventy years, Joseph Pomeroy Widney was born on December 26, 1841 in his grandfather's log cabin in Piqua, Ohio in the forests of Miami County, Ohio. He was the third son of John Wilson Widney (born 4 December 1809; died 1852) and Arabella Mac...
