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MASON Verne
Verne Rheem Mason
Date of birth : August 8, 1889, Wapello, Iowa.
Date of death : November 16, 1965, Miami, Florida (
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Profession internist.
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Addresses * 1930 : 256 South Saint Andrews, Los Angeles * 1940 : 342 South Irving Boulevard, Los Angeles.
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On August 17, 1921 he married Lucy Meredith Ginn (July 11, 1888, Virginia-October 7, 1962, California). They had 3 children Elizabeth Meredith (July 1st, 1922, Los Angeles-September 17, 2003, Colorado) ( 1925, Los Angeles)( Angeles-February 8, 2007, Los Angeles)(
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), John Reno (September 10, 1923, Los Angeles-July 2, 
;
) and Verne Mason Jr (May 15, 1926, Los
).
He remarried with Ruth May Meinardi (October 14, 1910, Illinois-July 9, 1966, California).
In 1911, he received a BS (Bachelor of Science) from the University of California in Berkeley, and an MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in 1915. As a medical resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1922, he gave the disease sickle cell anemia its name.
In 1921, he entered private practice in Los Angeles, where he became a clinical professor at the University of Southern California Medical School.
In 1936, he was called by Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn to diagnose and treat the sudden illness of director Frank Capra.In 1938 he was one of the physicians called to the sickbed of General of the Armies John J.Pershing.The commander of the American Expeditionary Force in France in World War I was in a coma and sinking. Mason made the medical report on General Pershing, who recovered and lived for 10 years more.
Because he served with distinction in the famous World War I Johns Hopkins Medical Unit and during the World War II, he was highly decorated.
While treating Howard Hughes after he was nearly killed in an airplane accident in 1946, Verne Mason formed a lasting friendship with the aviator, and this one sought his help in establishing the Institute.
As chairman of the Medical Advisory Board, Verne Mason was a vital link with managers of the Hughes Tool Company in planning and directing the new philanthropy.
Mason was for many years a member of the medical faculty of the University of Southern California, a professor of clinical medicine, and an attending physician at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. He was considered a leading internist.
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