San Francisco County
Biographies
A.
S. COOK, M. D.
A. S. Cook, M.D., has his office at No.
224 Post street, San Francisco,
where, in partnership with his wife, he is engaged in the practice of
medicine. Mrs. Dr. Cook is one of an old Highland-Scotch family, her
father, Alexander McKay, having come from Scotland
to Canada when
she was yet an infant. She has been a resident of California
since 1856, and commenced the study of medicine about twenty-five years ago,
and has been in practice over twenty years. She has made a specialty of
the treatment of cancerous diseases, in which she has been very
successful. Dr. Cook is a native of Boston,
Massachusetts, and his father was a
prominent insurance man of that place for many years. The family are of the early New England
stock. The Doctor came to California
in 1850, where he was engaged in active business pursuits until about twelve
years ago, when he commenced the study of medicine. He entered the California
Medical College
(Eclectic) in 1878, and graduated at that institution in 1881, receiving the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has since that time been engaged in the
general practice of medicine in San Francisco.
Transcribed 2-28-05 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 53-54, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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