Sacramento County
Biographies
DRS. G. VERNON EWING
AND ELIZABETH W. EWING
Drs. G. Vernon Ewing and Elizabeth W. Ewing.—Dr. G. Vernon Ewing was born in Hayesville, Ashland County, Ohio, February 12, 1831, and was educated at Vermillion Collegiate Institute. He began the study of medicine and surgery at the age of eighteen years as a student of the celebrated Drs. Armstring and Glass, of Hayesville. After pursuing his studies one year under these popular physicians, he entered the Cleveland Medical College, of which the late Prof. H. A. Ackley, the celebrated surgeon, was a professor. He graduated in the class of 1852, of which the late distinguished Dr. Bliss was a member. After graduating he returned to Hayesville and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession devoting special attention to surgery and disease of females. In 1853 he was married to Martha S. Kuhn, daughter of Rev. J. Kuhn, professor of languages in Vermillion Collegiate Institute of Hayesville. She died in 1867, leaving five children, four of whom are still living. In 1854 he settled at Rock Run, Stephenson County, Illinois, where he continued in practice for fourteen years, when in 1869 he removed to Chenoa, Illinois, where he practiced till 1880, when he opened an office for practice in Chicago and at the same time took a special course of one year in Rush Medical College, in surgery, under the late Prof. Moses Gunn, and the diseases of females under Prof. Byford. In 1883 he came to Amador City, California, for the benefit of his health, and in a few months removed and settled permanently in Sacramento, where he continues to devote his time principally to the practice of surgery and the diseases of females. In these branches of practice he has had very extensive experience and is a successful operator, having performed many of the most important and critical operations. The Doctor was married the second time in 1870, to Elizabeth Wilson, a native of Lexington, Ohio; her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio in early days, settling at Lexington; her mother was Isabel McCoy, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. She was born in 1839, educated at Lexington Seminary, Ohio, under the care of Prof. Richards Gailey, and graduated at Washington Female Seminary, Washington, Pennsylvania, and was a successful educator. When she married the Doctor in 1870, she engaged in the study of medicine and graduated in 1884 at “The Woman’s Hospital Medical College of Chicago;” soon after she joined her husband at Sacramento and entered with him in practice. She has devoted special time and attention to female diseases, and is doing a very large practice in these diseases in connection with a general practice.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Page 494. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2005 Karen Pratt.