San Francisco County
Biographies
W.
H. DAVIES, M. D.
W. H. Davies, M.
D., whose office is at No. 25 Haight street, San
Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1868, and has been engaged
in the practice of medicine since 1857.
He was born Picton, Nova Scotia, in 1836, and
his early education was received in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he attended the
common schools, and later the Halifax Academy, where he remained about four
years. He then took a course in the Free
Church College of that city, remaining about three years. In 1853 Mr. Davies went to Scotland, where he
commenced the study of medicine at the Edinburg
University, graduating at that institution in 1857, after a full course of four
years, and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then returned to Halifax, where he was
engaged in the practice of his profession for ten years, after which he came to
California, in 1868, and has since been engaged in continuous practice. Dr. Davies was for some years Assistant
Surgeon of the California State Woman’s Hospital. While in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he was Surgeon
of the County Hospital for five years, also of the Protestant Orphan Asylum for
eight years; for the Infant Shelter three years; of the Halifax Dispensary ten
years, and Surgeon-Major of Volunteers, with the rank and pay of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Transcribed
Karen L. Pratt.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 657, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.
©
2005 Karen L. Pratt.