San Francisco County
Biographies
ROBERT
E. BUNKER, M. D.
Robert E.
Bunker, M. D., whose office is at No. 46 O’Farrell street, San Francisco, has been
a resident of California since 1886, and has been engaged in the practice of
medicine since 1889. He was born in
Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1864, and is of English and Scandinavian descent,
his father being a native of Massachusetts,
and his mother of Norway. His father’s family have been residents of New England for a number of
generations.
Robert received
his early education in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He commenced the study of medicine in 1885,
under the preceptorship of J. R. Freeman, of
Minneapolis, with whom he studied one year, and at the same time entered the
Minnesota Hospital College, where he took the course of 1885-’86. On coming to California Dr. Bunker entered
the medical department of the University of California, where he graduated in
1889, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He is now the Assistant Police Surgeon of San
Francisco, a position he has held since January, 1890. He is also resident physician of the Crocker
Old People’s Home.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 74-75, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna L. Becker.