Glendale, California Biographies
Dr.
H. R. Boyer
Dr. H. R.
Boyer, one of Glendale’s prominent
physicians, was born in Accident, Garret County,
Maryland.
He is one of twelve children—his father, ninety-one years of age, is
still living. Dr. Boyer took a four-year
course in medicine and surgery at the University
of Maryland, graduating in1903. He was an intern in the profession in his
native town until 1908, when he came to California on a vacation, and being
favorably impressed, decided to make this state his home. He returned to Maryland
and closed his business there. After
taking a post graduate course at Bellevue
Hospital in New
York and at the Policlinic in Chicago
he returned to California and,
passing the State Medical Board examinations, opened an office in Oakland
in 1909. He remained there until 1911,
when he came to Los Angeles and
entered the County Hospital
for postgraduate work. After spending
eighteen months in this institution he came to Glendale
and has had offices in the First National Bank building since the time of its
completion in 1913. In 1917, Dr. Boyer
went East and again took post graduate work at John
Hopkins; also at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mr. Boyer
is a life member of 1289, B.P.O.E., a Knights Templar Mason, and holds a life
membership in Al Malaihah Shrine. He
belongs to the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and is a member of the American
Medical Association, and of the Glendale Medical Club, of which he was
President for the year 1921. In Los
Angeles, on April
8, 1913, Dr. Boyer married Elizabeth B. Stebbins of Kenosha,
Wisconsin.
Mrs. Boyer, who is a talented musician, received her education at Kemper
Hall, Kenosha, and is a life member
of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Glendale.
On March 1, 1922, Dr. and Mrs. Boyer left Glendale for a trip to Europe,
where the doctor took a post graduate course at the famous University of
Vienna, returning to Glendale the following August.
From “History of
Glendale and Vicinity”
by John Calvin Sherer. The Glendale Publishing Company, c. 1922 F. M. Broadbooks
and J. C. Sherer. p. 413.
