EDNA R. FIELD, M.D

 

 

EDNA R. FIELD, M.D., whose office is at No. 422 Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California for the past twelve years, and has been in practice of medicine for the past eight years.  She was born in Ossipee, New Hampshire, near the White Mountains, in 1848, the daughter of Dr. R. R. Ricker, who was a physician at that place, but has for many years been practicing in Lewiston, Maine.  He was assistant surgeon in the Twenty-third and later in the Thirty-second Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war.  Our subject received her primary education in the public schools of Maine, and her classical education was completed at Bates' College, Lewiston, Maine, where she spent four years.  She commenced the study of medicine in Rochester, New York, under the preceptorship of Dr. Sarah Dolly, with whom she studied for one year.  She then came to California, where she entered the Cooper Medical College, in 1879, graduating in that institution after a four years' course in 1883, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  Dr. Field at once entered into the practice of medicine, confining herself especially to the diseases of women and children in which she has built to be very satisfactory practice.  She has been for five years attending physician of the Children's Hospital, with which she has been connected since she has been in practice.  She is a member of the State and County Medical Society, and of the Alumni of the Cooper Medical College, of which she is one of the vice-presidents.

 

 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco" (and Its Cities And Their Suburbs) Volume 1. Lewis Publishing 

Company 1892. Page 446.

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.