Theodore Perceval Gerson (1872 - 1960)

Born 27 May 1872 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet Anna (Thompson) Gerson — married 10 Jan 1899 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Husband of Vera Madeline (Daniels) Gerson — married 3 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California, United States

Died 3 Mar 1960 at age 87 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Percival Gerson has Jewish Roots.

Perceval was born May 27, 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the son of Isidor Isaac Gerson and Ella Hemenway Woodruff.^[1]

He was awarded his M.D, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1895, pursued post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins Medical School for 3 years, interned in large eastern hospitals and taught pathology at Johns Hopkins.

He married Miss Harriet Anna Thompson on January 10, 1899 in Chicago, Cook county, Illinois. She had attended Northwestern University.^[2]

During the 1900 Census, Perceval and Harriet and their infant son Lowell were in the home of Perceval's parents in Lansdowne, Delaware county, Pennsylvania where he practiced medicine from 1899-1903.^[3]

in 1903 the family moved to Los Angeles, California.

Widowed in 1922, Dr. Gerson remarried on November 3, 1923 to Vera Madeline Daniels in Los Angeles, California and they were the parents of 1 son.^[4]

Memberships

• Philadelphia Pathology Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences, Alpha Mu Pi Omega
• Pennsylvania National Guard 3 years
• Municipal newspaper commissioner, Los Angeles, 1912-1913
• Municipal League of Los Los Angeles Member of advisory board Yenching U. (Peiping, China).
• Member National Committee for Planned Parenthood.
• Fellow Hollywood Academy Medical (honorary life)
• Member Friends University of California at Los Angeles Library
• American Medical Association
• California State Medical Society
• Los Angeles Court Medical Society
• Chicago Pathology
• Member of the Severance Club, a cultural conversation group, serving as president from 1917 until his death
• Founder, charter board member and leader of Hollywood Bowl Association and its summer music festival
• Trustee of the Metropolitan University
• Director, the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Physician to the California State Personnel Board
• Member of the California State Medical Society
• Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association

Dr Theodore Perceval Gerson was long accorded a position of prominence in Hollywood. He was a skilled physician and surgeon. He also played a leading role in various cultural activities and socio-economic and political movements.^[5]

Percival died at the age of 87 on March 3, 1960 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA and was buried March 7th in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Cause of death was cerebral vascular disease. ^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HF47-ZH2M : 15 February 2020), Theodore Percavill Gerson, 1872.
2. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1968", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7WG-MPR : 10 March 2018), T Perceval Or Percival Gerson and Harriet Anna Thompson, 17 Jan 1899.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3S6-38P : accessed 25 May 2021), T Percival Gerson in household of Isidor Gerson, Lansdown borrough, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 192, sheet 20B, family 393, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,406.
4. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8N7-3WL : 9 March 2021), T Perceyal Gerson and Vera M Daniels, 03 Nov 1923; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,429.
5. ↑ Papers of T. Perceval Gerson
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
7. ↑ "United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CTK1-KB3Z), T. Perceval Gerson, 1960.

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