co-founding Los Angeles Medical Society and the Church of the Nazarene
Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 – July 4, 1938), was an American doctor, educator, historian, and religious leader.
After the American Civil War led him to medicine, he followed his brothers to California where he received his medical degree. He saw southern California as a "Garden of Eden". In Los Angeles he was a founder of the Los Angeles Medical Society. He was a strong proponent of the new University of Southern California, and became its second president and the founding dean of its school of medicine. The Los Angeles Public Library was one of his major interests.
His real estate interests in California flourished, and he was an early environmentalist as well as promoter of the new metropolis. He believed deeply in Los Angeles becoming a major city with a seaport. The city would use water from across local mountains, and would recreate Lake Cahuilla.
He was a founder of the Church of the Nazarene in Los Angeles, as well as a Methodist pastor. He published many books, mainly on his views about California and its history, but only Race Life of the Aryan Peoples was commercially published.
He died at 96, having seen Los Angeles become a major city and seaport. One of the "most conspicuous Southern Californians of his generation",[1] Widney was a cultural leader in Los Angeles for nearly seventy years.[2]
Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 – July 4, 1938), was an American doctor, educator, historian, and religious leader. After the...
Race Life of the Aryan Peoples is a two-volume book written by Joseph Pomeroy Widney, at the time chancellor of the University of Southern California...
university in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1880 by Robert Maclay Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California. The university...
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had been founded in California in October 1895 by Phineas Bresee and JosephWidney, to form the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene (simplified to Church...
facing financial hardships that became the focus of his successor, Joseph P. Widney, M.D. "Marion M. Bovard | About USC". about.usc.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21...
conducted in the home and at the gravesite in Evergreen Cemetery by JosephWidney. Pallbearers were J. M. Griffith, Harris Newmark, S. Lazard, Reginaldo...
nephews included Judge Robert Maclay Widney, a founder of the University of Southern California, and Dr. JosephWidney, the second president of the University...
Nazarene founded in October 1895 by Dr. Phineas F. Bresee and Dr. Joseph Pomeroy Widney. The name of the denomination comes from the biblical description...
was openly racist. His racist ideas were reinforced by his reading JosephWidney's 1907 Race Life of the Aryan Peoples, a book recommended to him by Theodore...
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