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Wesley Harrington Ketchum was a physician who is best known for his work with Edgar Cayce, the clairvoyant diagnostician, in the early 1900s. Ketchum was medical born in Lisbon, Ohio on November 11, 1878 to Saunders C. Ketchum and Bertha Bennett, and was the oldest of 7 children. He graduated from the Cleveland College of Homeopathic Medicine in 1904, and took up the practice of medicine in Hopkinsville Kentucky. He practiced medicine in Hopkinsville until 1912. In 1913 he traveled across country to San Francisco, and took passage to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he opened a new practice. He returned to California in 1918, and established an office in Palo Alto California, practicing medicine there until the 1950s. He retired to Southern California around 1963, settling in San Marino, just outside Pasadena. He died on November 28, 1968 in Canoga Park, California.
