San Francisco County
Biographies
GEORGE G. GERE
M.D.
George G.
Gere M.D., whose office is at No.
112 Grant avenue, has
been a resident of California
since 1877, and has practiced medicine for the past twenty years, ten of which
have been in San Francisco. He was born in Chenango county,
New York State,
in 1848, the son of Horatio N. and Juliana (Grant) Gere,
the former a native of Massachusetts
and the latter of New York State.
Dr. Gere’s primary education was received in public
schools in New York State. His parents removing to Nebraska
in 1857, where they were among the early settlers, Dr. Gere
attended the seminary of Pawnee City,
where he graduated after a three year’s course, in 1867. He then entered upon the study of medicine,
under the preceptorship of Dr. A. S. Stewart of Pawnee
City, Nebraska, with whom he
studied, except when at college, until his graduation. Meanwhile he entered the
Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, where he graduated after the usual
three year’s course in 1871. He
immediately entered upon the practice of medicine in partnership with his
former preceptor in Pawnee City,
where he continued about two years.
Later he practiced with Dr. Stewart for two years at Tecumseh,
Nebraska.
Removing further West, Dr. Gere settled in the
Utah Territory,
where he engaged in his practice in the town of Ophir, and later in Silver
Reef. Finding the fluctuations of mining
settlements uncongenial, he came to California,
where he practiced for four years in Porterville. In 1881 he removed to San
Francisco, and has been in continuous practice since.
For about five years Dr. Gere held the chair of Anatomy in the California Medical College, and since that time, for
the past five years, he has held the chair of Surgery in that college. He has been for eight years a member of the
Board of Examiners of the Eclectic Medical Society of California, and has been
its Secretary for the past seven years; has been President of the Eclectic
Medical Society of the State of California for two years, and its
Vice-President for the same number of years; was health officer for several
years in Tulare county; was delegate to the National Eclectic Medical
Association which met in St. Louis, in January, 1881, and has been a member of
the association since that time. Dr. Gere’s specialty is the surgical branch of his profession,
and particularly the correction of facial and physical deformities. He is a member of the F. & A.M. He was made a member at the age of twenty-one
years, and was probably one of the youngest men ever elected in the United States a Master of a lodge,
receiving that honor at the age of twenty-three years.
Transcribed David Rugeroni.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 28-29, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 David Rugeroni.
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