San Francisco County
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ALFRED DE MARCONNAY, M.D.
ALFRED DE MARCONNAY, M.D., whose office is at No. 632 Hayes
street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California
for the past ten years, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1887. He
was born in Weimar, Saxony, in
1853. His early education was received in the gymnasium, and later in the University
of Bonn, which he entered in 1874,
receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; in the meantime he had studied
and passed the examination of mining engineer. Later he attended the school of
mining at Paris, France
and after the conclusion of his studies he traveled as mining engineer and
naturalist in Northern Africa and later in South America, being with De Lesseps
in Panama as engineer on the Panama
canal during 1880. In the latter part of
that year he came to California
and was for some years engaged in railroad building and lumbering. In February,
1883, while engaged in Southern Idaho, he with three
companions was caught in a blizzard in which his three companions were frozen
to death, he having lost both feet. Mr. Marconnay
then commenced the study of medicine, graduating in 1887 after a full three
years course and receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He entered into
private practice in San Francisco
in 1887, in which he has since continued.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages
603-604, Lewis Publishing
Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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