CHARLES MEALAND, M.D.
CHARLES
MEALAND, M.D. Although a resident in
this city but a comparatively short time, having arrived in Sacramento by a
little over three years ago, Dr. Mealand presents a capital instance of what
may be accomplished by skill and attention to business, as he has already
stepped well to the front in his profession and has won a practice of most
respectable dimensions. Dr. Mealand is
a native of Coventry, Warwickshire, England, where he was born February 3,
1846. In his native town he received a
thorough scholastic training and a fitting for the general business of life,
though without proceeding to the study of a profession. Upon arriving at his majority in 1867, he
determined to come to America, making his way directly to the State of
Illinois. Having always had the taste
for the study of medicine, he began at once to prepare himself for the duties
of a physician, graduating at Bennett Medical College, Chicago, and locating at
Elgin, Illinois, where he remained until he decided in 1886 to come to this
State. As has always been stated, he
has built up to a good practice, having had excellent success in its course. Dr. Mealand is an active member of the
Baptist Church, holding a place upon the executive committee of the Sacramento
Baptist Union, and is an enthusiastic worker in the Sabbath-school. He has been deeply interested in both church
and Sunday-school matters since he was seventeen years of age. During his residence of twenty years in
Elgin, he was always busily employed and for several years acted as
superintendent and chorister of the Sunday-school in connection with the
Baptist Church there. He also acted as
superintendent here in the Ninth Street Church, of which he is a member until
the calls of a laborious profession compelled him to give it up. He is a member of the Ancient Order of
Foresters, of the I. 0. 0. F., and of the Sons of St. George, having acted for
some time as examining physician for Benbow Lodge of the latter body for some
time, as also of the Knights of Honor.
He possesses a snug branch of twenty-four acres at Loomis, not far above
this city, which is set out in pear, apricot, cherry, peach and other fruit
trees. He also owns a section of timberland
near Visalia in this state. Dr. Mealand
was married September 9, 1866, in Coventry England, to Miss Jane Baxter of that
place. They have four children, two
sons and two daughters, whose names are as follows: Charles Baxter, Clarence
Herman, Grace Elizabeth and Gertrude Beatrice.
His mother is still alive at the good old age of seventy-nine, and still
resides at Coventry. Dr. Mealand has
the peculiar fortune to be a seventh son, a fact that perhaps contributes to
his great success as a physician. He
has one brother in the sheep business in Australia; another an artist in
Massachusetts, and a third retired from active business in England.
An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. By Hon. Win. J Davis.
Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 257-258.
Submitted
by: Nancy Pratt Melton.