El
Dorado County
Biographies
DR. A. A. McKINNON, M. D.
Among
the younger members of the medical profession in El Dorado County, none is held
in greater esteem than Dr. A. A. McKinnon, who has been engaged in practice in
Placerville for the past five years and is regarded as a thoroughly competent
and reliable physician. He was born in
Bottineau, North Dakota, on the 6th of August, 1900, and is a son of
Neil and Margaret (Acheson) McKinnon.
His father served as sheriff and deputy sheriff of Bottineau County and
on retiring from office turned his attention to farming, also engaging in the
transfer business, in which he was successful.
A.
A. McKinnon received his elementary education in the public and high schools of
his native city, after which he was a student in the University of North Dakota
for one year. He then matriculated in
the medical school of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1925.
He served his internship in the City Hospital of San Francisco and the
Sisters’ Hospital in Sacramento, after which, in July, 1926, he came to
Placerville and entered upon the practice of his profession. He has built up a large practice and has been
very successful in the treatment of human ailments. He is now serving as county physician and
health officer, the duties of which dual position he is discharging in a very
creditable manner. Socially he is
popular because of his agreeable and kindly manner and the fine public spirit
which he has shown in relation to matters affecting the welfare and progress of
his community.
Dr.
McKinnon was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Moriarity. Politically he is a staunch supporter of the
Republican Party, and fraternally is a member of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. Professionally he is affiliated
with the Sacramento County Medical Society, the California State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association.
During the World War he served in the Students Army Training Camp. He is a gentleman of fine personal qualities,
is devoted to his life work and has attained a high place in the ranks of his
profession in this section of the state.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 360-361. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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