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ROBERT F. WERNER, M. D.
Dr.
Robert F. Werner, who enjoys a large and steadily growing practice in medicine
and surgery at Nevada City, entered his profession with the advantage of a thorough
technical training and since coming to this locality has achieved distinctive
success. He was born in Center City,
Chisago county, Minnesota, April 4, 1901, and is a son
of Dr. O. S. and Ellen Marie (Runstrom) Werner.
He inherited a taste for his present profession; for in both paternal
and maternal lines his forebears have practiced medicine. His paternal grandfather, whose family name
was spelled “Verner,” was well educated in his native country, Germany, and
moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he practiced medicine successfully for some
years, and died there. His son, O. S.,
graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Heidelberg and is now
a prominent physician in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the age of sixty-four
years. The mother, who is sixty years old, was born in Kansas, is a graduate of
Lindsborg College, in that state, and is an accomplished musician.
Robert
E. Werner, who is the youngest of a family of five children, was reared in
Minneapolis, in the public schools of which city he received his early
education. He early became interested in
his father’s profession and gave considerable time to private study of medical
subjects. He graduated from the
Minneapolis high school in 1917, and completed his pre-medical course at the
academic college of the University of Minnesota, from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. Later he
received his Bachelor of Science degree, after which he served as a junior
interne in St. Mary’s Hospital in Minneapolis, and as interne in the Gillette
Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children.
He was a student in the medical school of the University of California
in 1926-27 and in the latter year received the degree of Doctor of
Medicine. On July 12, 1927, the Doctor
came to Nevada City, where he has won a well deserved reputation for his
learning and skill in both medicine and surgery.
In
1927 Dr. Werner was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Erdman, a native
of Minneapolis, who graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the
University of California, received her Master degree from Columbia University,
and is now engaged in writing a textbook, under the auspices of the Minneapolis
board of education, her work being intended to provide pastime for subnormal children. Dr. and Mrs. Werner are the parents of a son,
Robert Frederick. The Doctor is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks at Nevada City, the Rotary Club at Grass Valley, California, and various
civic organizations. He is a member of the
California State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3 Pages 237-239. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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