Butte County
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WILLIAM C. WILSON, D. D. S.
WILLIAM C. WILSON, D. D. S.—A
painstaking and successful dentist whose scientific knowledge and technical
skill have placed him among the leaders of his important profession, and
enabled him to build up a large and lucrative practice, is
Dr. William C. Wilson, a native of Beatrice, Nebr., where he was
born on October 6, 1876. There, too, he was educated, remaining at
home until his nineteenth year, and enjoying those advantages for the building
up of a robust constitution and the training of a healthy mind peculiar to, and
the pride of his native state.
When he set forth into the world, he went
to Philadelphia and learned the barber’s trade, at which he worked, in that
city, for some years. Having decided, however, to become a dentist, he entered
the Philadelphia Dental College in 1903, and after a very rigorous course of
study, he graduated, in 1906, with the coveted degree of D. D. S. But
this desired result was not attained without an exertion characteristic of the
American self-made man, and which brought to the young student its own and
certain reward. He worked his way through college and in the end more
thoroughly mastered his subjects.
At first Dr. Wilson practiced in
Philadelphia, taking a chair for a year and a half in the office of the
well-known Pennsylvania dentist, Dr. G. A. McGee; but visiting
an uncle in Gridley, Cal., in 1907, he was attracted to the expanding town and
encouraged, in the following February, to open an office here. And in Gridley
he has practiced ever since, serving a satisfied clientele composed not only of
patrons resident in the city, but those who come from many miles around.
As is the case with a goodly number of the
citizens of Gridley who are looking to the future and have unshaken confidence
in the resources of the county, Dr. Wilson owns a twenty-acre almond
orchard in full bearing, located in the vicinity of the Buttes. He also has
real estate holdings in the town.
Mrs. Wilson, one of the gifted members of
local society, was Miss Catherine E. Diener
before her marriage, and was a native of Philadelphia. In fraternal circles,
Dr. Wilson was made a Mason in North Butte Lodge, No. 230,
F. & A. M., of Gridley.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
13 October 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages
1248-1249, Historic
Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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