Lakewood, Ohio

VerifiedFounding families and early settlers

Named in memory of Dr. C. Lee Graber, a Lakewood doctor who began practice in 1904 and started Lakewood Hospital.

Worried about care for bed patients, he mortgaged his own home to buy a frame building at Belle and Detroit holding fifteen patients. With help from physicians and friends the hospital was organized in 1907, soon became a non-profit run by citizens, and was accepted by the City in 1931.

Named for

Dr. C. Lee Graber (practice from 1904). Lakewood doctor who mortgaged his home to start the hospital organized in 1907.

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See Graber Drive on the map →