San Francisco County
Biographies
JEROME
A. ANDERSON, M. D.
Jerome A.
Anderson, M. D., whose office is in the Odd Fellows building, San Francisco,
has been a resident of California since 1872, and engaged in the practice of
medicine since 1873. He was born in
Randolph county, Indiana, in 1847, and his early
education was received in the public schools of Kansas, to which State his
parents had moved during his early childhood.
He later attended a private seminary at Neosho Falls, Kansas. He commenced the study of medicine in 1868,
under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Driscoll, of
Neosho Falls, with whom he studied three years.
In 1871 he entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where he
remained one year, and in 1872 entered the medical department of the University
of California, graduating in 1873, in the first class graduating from that
institution, and receiving the degree of Doctor of medicine. He at once entered in the practice of his
profession in San Francisco, where he has since been continuously engaged. The Doctor is a member of the State Medical
Society of California, of the County Medical Society of San Francisco, Fellow
of the San Francisco Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, ex-President of the
Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of California,
President of the Golden Gate Branch of the Theosophical Society, and editor of
a literary monthly, the New Californian.
Dr. Anderson’s family have been residents of America for generations, and
are probably of Scotch descent. Five
generations in a direct line have been school teachers, including the Doctor,
he having paid his expenses through the university by teaching school. His father, W. G. Anderson, came from North
Carolina with his parents when a child.
He was also a pioneer settler of Kansas.
The parents both died in Kansas since the Doctor’s arrival in
California.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 78-79, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna L. Becker.