Tulare County Biographies

LEWIS L. SELIGMAN, M. D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The medical profession of Tulare county has an able exponent in Dr. 
Lewis L. Seligman, who, although comparatively young in years, has firmly 
established himself in his profession and won the confidence and esteem of the 
people and his professional brethren in this community. Lewis L. Seligman is a 
native of the San Joaquin valley, born in Traver, Tulare county, on the 8th day 
of October, 1893, the son of Emil and Anna (Frey) Seligman, the former of whom 
is the oldest merchant in this locality in the point of continuous operation.
        Lewis L. Seligman secured his elemental education in the public schools, 
graduating from high school. Having determined to devote his life to the 
practice of medicine, he then matriculated in the Medical School f the 
University of California, from which he was graduated with the class of 1917. 
During the following year he served an internship in Mount Zion Hospital, in San 
Francisco, and then entered the army as a member of the Medical Corps, with the 
rank of first lieutenant, being stationed on Angel Island. After his discharge 
from the army, Dr. Seligman took a six-month postgraduate course in the Medical 
School of Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1920 he came 
to Dinuba and entered upon the active practice of his profession. He has already 
acquired distinction in his calling and those who know him are unstinted in 
their praise of his ability and skill. He practices both medicine and surgery 
and is in command of a large clientele. Personally, Dr. Seligman possesses to a 
marked degree those qualities which win friends, and he is extremely popular 
throughout the community.
        Dr. Seligman was married to Honor Kathleen Pettit of Fresno county, and 
they have a son, Carl B. Dr. Seligman is a Mason, in which order he has taken 
the degrees of the Scottish Rite, is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and belongs 
to the American Legion and the Lions Club. He holds professional membership in 
the Tulare County Medical Society, the California State Medical Society and the 
American Medical Association.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 267