Santa
Clara County
Biographies
DAVID
A. BEATTIE, M.D.
D. A. BEATTIE, M.D. Both parents of Dr. Beattie came
originally from Scotland and located in the early ‘30s near Guelph, Ontario,
and there reared a family of ten children, of whom four are now located in
California, one in China, and five in Canada.
Dr. Beattie was reared in Canada and received his preliminary
education in the common schools of the country, after which he attended Galt
Collegiate Institute. Deciding to take
up a profession, at the age of eighteen years he entered Trinity Medical
College, of Toronto, following his graduation from this institution with a
course and graduation from the Toronto University Medical College. In 1892 he graduated from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons and the following two years he spent in China and
Japan. Returning to the United States in
1895, he located in Santa Clara, Cal., where he has since engaged in a practice
of his profession.
Along the lines of his work
Dr. Beattie is identified with the Santa Clara County Medical Society, the
California State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the
Pacific Coast Railway Surgeons’ Association.
Fraternally he is a member of Liberty Lodge No. 299,
A. F. & A. M.; San Jose Commandery No. 10, K. T.;
and Islam Temple, N.M.S. He is also
identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Ancient Order of Untied
Workmen; Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; Woodmen of the World; Modern
Woodmen of America; Fraternal Aid Association; and Ancient Order of Foresters.
Transcribed by Donna Toole.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page 933. The Chapman Publishing
Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2016 Donna Toole.