San Francisco County
Biographies
J. BOUSHEY, M.D.
J. BOUSHEY, M.D.,
whose office is at No. 1303 Mission street,
San Francisco, has been a resident of California
since 1876, and has been in the practice of medicine since 1874. He was born in La Porte,
Indiana in 1841, and his early education
was received in Detroit, Michigan,
where he attended the public schools. At the age of twenty-one years he removed
to Cincinnati, where he attended
private schools for a number of years, and also spent about six years in
various mercantile pursuits. In 1869 he
commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship
of Dr. Charles Kearns, of Covington, Kentucky,
and later under Dr. James T. Whitaker and P. S. Conner, a surgeon of Cincinnati. Dr. Boushey then
entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati,
graduating at that institution March 4,
1874. He practiced for about
one year in Ohio, and then came
to California, first locating in Oakland,
and later, in 1880, in San Francisco,
where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of
the County Medical Society of San Francisco, and of the State Medical Society
of California.
Dr. Boushey is of French descent on the paternal side; his
father was a native of Canada. His mother is of Dutch descent, whose
ancestors settled in Pennsylvania,
although she was a native of Kentucky. Dr. Boushey was
married to Mrs. Richards, of Prescott, Canada,
a daughter of Major Glendenning, who fought in the
British army at Waterloo, and later
was a pensioned British officer in Canada.
Transcribed 8-3-05 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 261, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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