San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/22/2010
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, N.Y., 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, N.Y., where he remained for another eleven months; then was at the naval training station at Pelham Bay, N.Y. 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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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