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3 unusual facts about Henry Dalton


Henry Dalton

The first successful surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo.

In 1893, African American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams would be the first on record to mimic Dalton's success and repaired the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish.

Rancho Azusa de Dalton

In 1885 Slauson acquired Henry Dalton's Rancho Azusa de Dalton, organized the Azusa Land and Water Company, and developed the town of Azusa.



see also

Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill

One subdivision became Chapman Woods, Pasadena, and Louis also owned Rancho San Francisquito, previously the property of his father-in-law, Henry Dalton.