Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM
EVERTS DOWNING, M. D.
WILLIAM EVERTS DOWNING, M. D.--Walnut Grove is fortunate in the possession of so efficient and conscientious a member of the medical profession as Dr. Downing. Born at Suisun, Solano County, August 19, 1880, he is the son of Dr. William G and Clara (Perkins) Downing, the father a native of Missouri, who came to California in 1874 and settled at Suisun. William G. Downing was a graduate of St. Louis Medical College, and was a skilled physician; he had an extensive practice in Solano County, and died aged fifty-eight years; the wife and mother, a native of Michigan, is still living, aged sixty-two, and makes her home at Berkeley.
William Everts Downing was the first born in a family of five children, and after finishing his preliminary education attended Stanford University, class of 1902, and Cooper Medical College of San Francisco, graduating in 1903 with his degree of M. D. After serving as interne for two years at the German Hospital and the Waldeck Hospital, San Francisco, he went to Suisun and engaged in practice with his father.
In 1917, Dr. Downing located at Walnut Grove, and has since practiced throughout the Delta country, where he has made many friends and is well-known throughout the valley. December 21, 1917, at San Jose, Dr. Downing was married to Miss Beatrice Kennedy, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of John and Beatrice Kennedy, the father a banker. She was educated in Philadelphia, Pa., and came to California in 1915. Two sons have blessed their marriage, William Green and John Everts.
Dr. Downing recently owned a 120 acre ranch in the Delta, south of Walnut Grove, which he improved and then sold, having bought the property as an investment. While keeping abreast with his scientific work, he has found time to take part in the fraternal and civic affairs of the valley. He is a member of Rio Vista Lodge of Masons, as well as the chapter of O. E. S., of Vallejo Lodge No. 559 of the Elks, Beta Theta Pi, and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities, and the County, State and American Medical Associations. In politics he is a Republican, reserving his support to the men and measures best calculated to advance his home community.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 914.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.