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CECIL CORWIN
Among the younger representatives of
professional life in Nevada County is Dr. Cecil Corwin, who has achieved
success in the practice of dentistry and is now enjoying a liberal and
constantly increasing patronage. The
Doctor is a native of Oregon, his birth having occurred in Tillamook County on
the 26th of June, 1871. His
father, Samuel Corwin, was a native of Canada, born February 19, 1834, and the
ancestors were from Ohio. They had
removed to Canada, but later returned to the United States, locating in Iowa,
where Samuel was reared to manhood. He
came to California with the pioneers of 1852, and ten years later removed to
Oregon, where he engaged in mining and merchandising. His death occurred in 1883. During his residence in Oregon he was united
in marriage to Miss Emeline A. Richardson, a native
of that state and a daughter of Clayton Richardson, who was one of the first
emigrants to that state, taking up his abode there in 1842. The mother of our subject is still living and
now makes her home in Auburn, California.
Dr. Corwin is the youngest in a
family of three children. He was reared
in the Golden state, acquiring the greater part of his education in the public
schools of Oakland, where he was graduated in 1886. After a period of clerical and railroad
service with the Central Pacific system he began the study of dentistry in the
office and under the direction of Dr. Crechbaum, and
was graduated in the dental department of the University of California with the
class of 1891. He practiced his
profession in the city of Oakland for seven years and then located in Grass
Valley, where he has since secured a large and lucrative patronage. He is thoroughly conversant with the science
of dentistry, and is an expert in the use of its mechanical appliances, so that
his labors are crowned with a high degree of success.
On the 8th of April,
1895, the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Bessie F. Hall, a native of
Alameda County, and a daughter of Alwell R. Hall, of
Maine, who came to California in 1853, and has been county assessor of Alameda
County for eighteen years. Dr. and Mrs.
Corwin have one child, Cecil M.
Politically Dr. Corwin is an active Republican, and socially he is
connected with the American Order of United Workmen of Grass Valley. For several years he has been a member of the
State Dental Association and keeps thoroughly abreast with all the improvements
that are being made along professional lines.
He is recognized as one of the prominent and successful citizens of his
adopted town, being active in support of all measures which he believes will
prove of public benefit.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 811-812. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2011
Gerald Iaquinta.
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