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FRANK CORNWALL, M.D.
FRANK CORNWALL, M.D., whose specialty is treatment of
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and whose office is at No.112 Grant
Avenue, San Francisco, has been a resident of California for the last eight
years, and has been engaged in practice in San Francisco during these years. He
was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1846. His parents, Francis and Martha (Carr) Cornwall,
were among the Pioneers of Ohio; his father was a native of Connecticut
and his mother of New Jersey. Our
subject received his primary education in the schools of Mansfield,
Ohio, and in Union county, Iowa.
In 1863 he entered the Simpson Seminary Centenary Collage at Indianola,
Iowa, in 1863, and remained there three
years. In his twentieth year he commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Carter, of Des
Moines, Iowa, with whom he
studied for three years. Meanwhile he had entered the Eclectic Medical College
of Cincinnati, Where he graduated after a course of study and lectures of three
and a half years. Mr. Cornwall commenced the general practice of his profession
in Iowa, remaining five years at Norwalk
and four years at Mount Ayer,
in that State. He then pasted a year in Chicago
in perfecting himself in the specialty he had chosen in his profession, the
opportunities of a large city being necessary for this purpose. His health
having become somewhat impaired from so many years of close application to
practice and study, he went to Montana,
where he spent some time in recuperation as well as in practice. Later he spent
six months in Dr. Knapp’s Institution in New York,
in further pursuit of study and practice in his specialty. The Doctor then came
to California, where he has since
built up a large and successful practice. Dr. Cornwall has been one of the
professors of the California Medical
College, where he has filled the
chair of Ophthalmology and Otology for eight years. He is a member of the
Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California; of
the Society of Physicians of the county of San
Francisco, and of Mount Mariah Lodge of F. and A. M., of San
Francisco. He has been a member of the State Board of
Examiners of the Eclectic Medical Society for the past eight years.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 593, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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