HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912.  Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1149-50. [Jefferson Co.]

DR. JOHN ARVID O. BRENNAN, one of the well-known physicians and surgeons of
Louisville, is a native of the Blue Grass state, being born in Louisville
on the 11th of March, 1880, and is one of the young members of the medical
profession.  He is the son of Thomas and Anna (Bruce) Brennan, the father
a native of Ireland, who came to Louisville with his parents when a child
and has been a citizen ever since, engaged in the manufacturing business.
The mother was born on the Isle of Jersey, the daughter of Dr. Napoleon
Bruce.  She died May 13, 1908.
     Dr. Brennan received his education in the public schools of Louisville
and in the private school of Professor Waddell.  He was graduated from the
medical department of the University of Louisville in 1901 and completed
his studies in medicine with three years in Vienna, Paris and Berlin.
Having acquired a thorough education in the requirements of his chosen
profession he returned to Louisville in 1904 and engaged in the practice
of medicine and surgery, in which he has since continued, meeting with the
success that his education, diligence and hard work deserves and which is
bound to come to those who have labored as Dr. Brennan has and does, for
he is advancing constantly in knowledge and experience.
     Dr. Brennan is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the
Louisville Society of Physicians and Surgeons, the Louisville Society of
Medicine, is visiting physician to St. Mary's and Elizabeth Hospital, and
a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.  The Doctor is a member of the Louisville Lodge of Elks and a
communicant of St. Paul's Episcopal church.

Brennan Bruce Waddell
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Isle_of_Jersey Ireland Paris Germany

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