Santa
Clara County
Biographies
WILLIAM C.
SCHLEY, M. D.
WILLIAM
C. SCHLEY, M. D. As a dermatologist William C. Schley
dignifies his calling with knowledge, science, and keen intuition, in
consequence of which he is without a peer in his line in the Santa Clara
valley. Behind his skill are social
qualities of a high order, years of study in the pursuit of his calling, and a
manner and address which not only wins the attention, but the confidence of a
large patronage.
On both sides of his family Mr.
Schley is descended from prominent and influential Maryland ancestors. His father was an crudite
attorney of the city of Baltimore, and his mother, formerly Ellen Tekel, was the daughter of St. George Tekel,
a member of a family whose deeds are rooted in the history of old Maryland. There were two children born to Dr. Schley’s
parents besides himself, an older sister, Anna, now Mrs. A. S. Abell of Baltimore, and a younger brother, St. George, a
graduate of West Point, who died in 1895.
The doctor acquired his preliminary education in the private schools of
Baltimore, and at Major Hall, after which he entered the Pennsylvania Military
College, at Chester, Pa., and after graduating took a course at Bryant &
Stratton’s Business College in Baltimore.
This training was supplemented by a course in the classics under a
private tutor, after which he began to study medicine, taking up therapeutics
under his uncle, Dr. St. George Tekel, of Baltimore,
and then entering the School of Dermatology at Cleveland, Ohio. Graduating in the class of 1891, Dr. Schley
engaged in practice in Baltimore until the spring of 1893, when he saw his way
clear to come to California, a change which his success has never permitted him
to regret. He has a large and lucrative
business, including the town of San Jose and surrounding county, a fact which
speaks for itself, as his work, more than almost any other line, calls for
practical demonstration of results.
Through his marriage with Ida D.
McGuire, daughter of Lyman McGuire, Dr. Schley became identified with one of
the prominent families of this section, Mr. McGuire owning a fine orchard and
home on the Mountainview road, one and a half miles
from Saratoga. This honored
horticulturist was born in St. Clair county, Ill., a
son of Joseph and Catherine (Halbert) McGuire,
natives of Virginia. Grandfather McGuire
removed to Illinois in 1826, and there his son Lyman became interested in the
grain business, in which he was engaged until coming to California in 1884. He married Ella Howsman,
of Lexington, Ill., and reared a large family, to whom he gave every advantage
in his power. Mrs. Schley has a trained
soprano voice, and is a graduate of King’s Conservatory of Music. Dr. Schley is a Republican, and attends the
Episcopal Church. His office in the Auzerais building is equipped with the latest devices for
his delicate work, and his patronage, his skill, his personal popularity, and
his commendable ambition, bespeak for him a future of unusual prominence and
promise.
Transcribed by
Doralisa Palomares.
Source: History of the State of California &
Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A.
M., Page 1398. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
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