Joseph Pomeroy Widney

Joseph Pomeroy Widney (December 26, 1841 — July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, raciologist, medical topographer, scholar-educator, clergyman, entrepreneur-philanthropist, proto-environmentalist, prohibitionist, philosopher of religion, Racial theorist, & prolific author. He served as the second President of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California and as the founding dean of the USC School of Medicine,[1] & was one of the co-founders and first general superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene, and the primary founder of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. One of the "most conspicuous Southern Californians of his generation",[2] Widney was a cultural leader in Los Angeles for nearly seventy years [3] & the "mystic seer in residence and prophet of Southern Californian Anglo-Saxonism".[4]

He has been classifed as Keltic Nordic by raciologist Alan J.S. Villarruel.