San Francisco County
Biographies
BENJAMIN F. CLARKE, M.D.
B.F. CLARKE, M.D., whose office is at No.103
Geary street, San
Francisco, was born in Yolo County,
California February 22, 1854, the son of E. L. and Mary (Ferguson)
Clarke. The father crossed the plains to this State in 1849, but returned to
the East in 1852, and brought his family to California
the same year. He has been engaged as a miner and farmer since that time in
Woodland, and is now living in that city on the competency secured by his labor
and enterprise in earlier years, Our subject received his early education in
the public schools of his native county, and later entered the Hesperian
College at Woodland, Where he graduated in 1875, after a course of six years,
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. He began his active life in that
field which has been the stepping stone of so many men who have reached success
in the United States,
teaching school, at which he continued for one year. He then entered upon the
study of medicine, under the preceptorship of the
celebrated Dr. L. C. Lane,
of San Francisco, meanwhile
entering the Cooper Medical
College, and after the usual course
of lectures and study graduated in 1877. He at once entered upon the practice
of medicine at Chico, Butte
County, where he remained for
thirteen years. In 1889 Mr. Clarke removed to San
Francisco, where he felt that a broader field was open
to him, and established himself in practice. He is a member of the State
Medical Society of San Francisco; the Natives Sons of the Golden West; the I.O.O.F.,
and of the Knights of Pythias.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 618, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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