Butte County
Biographies
EDWARD E. BAUMEISTER, M. D.
A highly esteemed representative of one of the noblest of all the professions, who is meeting with enviable success, is Dr. Edward E. Baumeister, who was born at San Francisco on April 9, 1878, the son of Dr. B. H. and Wilhelmina (Eichorn) Baumeister born in New York City and Germany, respectively. The grandfather, Dr. Carl Baumeister, was born in Germany, graduated from the University of Leipsie, and there received the degree of M. D. He served in the revolution of 1848, and thereafter fled from his fatherland and came to New York with Carl Schurz and others. When but a short time in this country, he fully proved his capacity for American citizenship in the most heroic manner. He enlisted in the Civil War in defense of the Union, and was killed at the Battle of Antietam, while doing his duty as a surgeon in a hospital that was shelled by the enemy.
Dr. B. H. Baumeister came to California as a young man. He graduated from the University of California, and from its medical department, and is now practicing in San Francisco.
Brought up in San Francisco, and educated at the grammar and high schools there, Edward E. Baumeister graduated from the Lowell High School, and then matriculated at the University of California, finally graduating, in 1898, from the pharmaceutical department, receiving the degree of Ph. G. At the conclusion of his studies, he made a trip to South America as private secretary for a large mercantile establishment, going as far as Caracas, Venezuela, and after six months returning to San Francisco. Almost immediately after, he became the manager of a large drug concern at Vallejo.
Choosing the field of medicine as his ultimate goal, Mr. Baumeister entered the medical college of the University of California, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of M. D. in 1904. He then served on the staff of the San Francisco Polyclinic, and was also on the staff of the City and County Alms House, and was interne of the City and County Hospital. Still later he was made a member of the staff of the City and County Hospital.
In December, 1907, Dr. Baumeister located at Chico, and entered energetically into the practice of medicine and surgery, in which field he has ever since been phenomenally successful. He has made several trips East for the purpose of medical and surgical research, doing postgraduate work and making a specialty of surgery.
Aside from the many problems inviting or demanding his attention in the medical field, Dr. Baumeister is much interested, like the true student of broad and deep sympathies, in the scientific and artistic domain of horticulture. He has set out an orchard of almonds at Durham, and is one of the owners of a ranch north of Chico. Both of these properties are very promising.
At Chico, on December 1, 1917, Dr. Baumeister was married to Miss Irma Foltz, who was born at St. Paul. He was made a Mason in Solano Lodge, No. 229, F. and A. M., at Vallejo, and is a member of Chico Lodge, B. P. O. Elks. For a while he was president of the Butte County Medical Association, and now he is the association’s secretary. He is also a member of the Northern District Medical Association, and of the State Medical Society. In politics, he is an Independent.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1302-1303, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Joyce Rugeroni.
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