Sacramento
County
Biographies
DR.
GEORGE BENJAMIN CLOW
DR.
G. B. CLOW, of Sacramento, was born in Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, October 3, 1856. The
family removed to Potawatomie County, near
Louisville, Kansas, and there at the age of eighteen he became engaged on his
father’s farm. Subsequently he taught in
the district school, and studied medicine under Dr. Taylor, and completed a
four years’ course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa,
under Dr. J. C. Hughes, Surgeon and Dean of institution, Dr. J. M. Angear, who afterward removed to Chicago, and Prof. A. M.
Carpenter. He graduated with honors at
that institution in the class of 1880, and began the practice of his profession
at Delaware, Ripley County, Indiana, thirty-eight
miles from Cincinnati, Ohio. To find a wider
field he came to the Pacific coast, locating first at Downieville,
Sierra County, and then at Colfax, taking the place of Dr. Runey. There in February, 1882 he married Miss Julia
Stose, a native daughter, and a niece of George Koch,
of San Francisco. Her grandfather many
years ago was a resident of this city, owning the property now occupied by A.
A. Van Voorhies.
Immediately after his marriage, Dr. Clow
returned to Chicago to take a special course at the Rush Medical College, and
graduated there February 20, 1883. He
then came to Los Angeles, this State, but in September, having purchased the
business of Dr. Grindle, he removed with his family to the Capital City. Here he has just completed a fine residence
on the corner of Twelfth and L streets, opposite the Capitol, and therefore in
one of the most eligible locations in the city.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 576-577. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2006
Karen Pratt.