The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1042 

JOHN P. LOUDON, M. D.

Among the successful practicing physicians of Yakima who employ the latest
scientific knowledge in their professional duties is Dr. John P. London, who way
born in New Zealand on the 30th of October, 1883, and is a son of William and
Elizabeth Loudon, who came to the United States in 1884. Making their way across
the country. they settled in the Yakima valley, taking up a homestead to which
the father devoted his attention throughout his remaining days. his death
occurring in 1885. The mother survives and is yet living in this state.

Dr. Loudon concluded his public school education by study in the high school at
Yakima and afterward entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as a
medical student, being graduated with the class of 1908. In that year he went to
Youngstown, Ohio, and entered the City Hospital as an interne, occupying the
position for two years and gaining very broad, valuable and practical knowledge
through hospital practice. In 1910 he returned to Yakima, where he opened an
office which he has since maintained. He has resumed his studies at various
periods and at all times has been a broad reader of medical literature, so that
he has kept in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress.
He concentrates upon no particular line but continues in general practice and
his ability is recognized and attested by the public and the profession.

On the 4th of June, 1914, Dr. Loudon was married to Miss Florence E. Jones, a
daughter of Owen Jones, of Yakima, and they have one child, Elizabeth. Dr.
London belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a member of the
Country Club and of the Commercial Club. His interest in the latter indicates
his devotion to the welfare and progress of the community in which he snakes his
home. Along strictly professional lines he has connections with the County and
State Medical Societies and also with the American Medical Association and
through the proceedings of these bodies keeps in touch with the trend of
professional thought and discovery.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.