San Francisco County
Biographies
SAMUEL HAWKINS BUTEAU, M.D.,
SAMUEL HAWKINS BUTEAU, M.D., Resident Physician of Oakland
General Hospital under the auspices of the Alameda County Medical Association,
was born in Camp Girardean, Missouri, January 4, 1864, a son of Samuel Aubert
and Helen Hawkins) Buteau, both living in 1891. The father, a native of Canada,
was educated for the Medical Profession at Castleton, Vermont, and was a
teacher of languages in a college in Vermont, was graduated from the Castleton
Medical College, practiced in Vermont for about ten years and was there married
in 1852, his wife being a native of that State, of New England descent for some
generations. She was also a teacher in the same institution, moved to Missouri
and owned a cotton Plantation farther south, a general
store at Cape Girardean,
and also practiced his profession in 1856, and was well established and
prosperous when the Civil war interfered with his interests. He moved with his
family to California in 1869,
after the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad. After a short time at Napa,
he settled at Centerville, Alameda
County, and practiced his
profession about sixteen years. In 1886 he retired from practice, and lives
with his children: Mary E., the wife of Mr. J. H. Mount, a real estate agent in
Napa; Frank Horatio, now of Oakland,
local manager of Mockbee & Boyers, dealers in poultry and vegetables;
Minnie M., the wife of Rev. J. W. Lundy, a Presbyterian minister of San Mateo;
Samuel H., our Subject; Minnie M., above Helen S., living with her parents. The
father was born about 1820, the mother about 1835. Grandfather Horatio Hawkins
lived to be eighty-two, dying in Napa
in 1888. Grandfather Samuel Aubert, Sr., lived to be over ninety, dying in Montreal,
being connected for many years with the Department of Fishery. Dr. S.H. was
first educated in the local school in Centerville, and
entered the Oakland High
School at fourteen, and took a full course shortened
by three months. He then had a private teacher instead of the normal school,
and became a teacher, following his profession in Humboldt
County; then later in Tulare
County as principal of San
Lorenzo School
three years. In 1886 he began the Study of medicine in the Cooper
Medical College,
graduating in October 1889, after a three years course, and got his diploma the
same year, and began practice in this city before the close of the year, and
was appointed resident Physician of the Oakland
General Hospital
in April 1890. He is a member of the Alameda County Medical Association.
Mrs.
Buteau is an artist of Oakland,
has done some work that has attracted attention, and teaches painting in
different lines.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages
608-609, Lewis Publishing
Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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