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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Elisha Merritt Whitten papers
source:
The Book Shop
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0467
Physical Description:
.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1872-1913
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Elisha Merritt Whitten Papers (Collection 467). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and
Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from The Book Shop, 2015.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9975963613606533
Administrative / Biographical History
Elisha Merritt Whitten, M.D. was born 13 June 1834 in West Bath, Maine. He attended the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin
College, receiving the M.D. degree in 1865 following a course of lectures at Harvard Medical School and two in Maine. Arriving
in 1867, he practised for 48 years in Nebraska City, Nebraska, serving twice as president of the Nebraska State Medical Association
(one term ended in 1879) and at one time as professor of gynecology at the University of Nebraska (1884-1887). His home, built
in 1874 and enlarged in 1902 and serving as both residence and office, is listed on by the National register of Historic Places
in the Southwest Nebraska City Historic District. Dr. Whitten died 4 September 1913 in Nebraska City.
Account notebooks and ledgers that document the community medical practice of Nebraska City, Nebraska physician Elisha Merritt
Whitten.
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The Book Shop