San Francisco County
Biographies
DR.
C. S. HALEY
Dr.
C. S. Haley, a leading physician and one of the most prominent educators, not only
on the Pacific coast, but equally well known among practical educators in
Eastern States, is a son of New England.
He
was born in York county,
Maine, October
23, 1832. His parents were natives of New England, his father, John M.
Haley, being a well-known physician. Dr.
Haley attended school and received his early education in Maine, and his collegiate
course in Georgia and New York. He engaged in teaching in the public schools
when only seventeen years of age. He
went South and taught in Georgia when it required the
courage of one’s convictions for a Yankee to engage in that profession in the
Southern States, and remained there four years.
The
Doctor was a self-made man, as his parents could ill afford to pay his
collegiate course; therefore, when he determined to take up the study of
medicine, he carefully nursed his funds, laying aside his earnings from
teaching till he had saved a sufficient sum to carry him through college, when
he entered the Augusta Medical College of Georgia, in the year 1854; and in the
following year he pursued his studies at the Atlanta Medical College, from
which institution he received his diploma.
Determined
to avail himself of every opportunity of gaining a thorough knowledge of his
chosen profession, he went to New York city, taking a third course in the
University Medical College, where, having daily access to the hospitals of this
large city, he had a chance of studying diseases in every form, which proved a
great benefit to him in his after career.
After
practicing medicine in Georgia for a year or two, he
returned North, and for ten years successfully
practiced his profession in Middlesex county, New Jersey. While there he was actively identified with
educational interests; was elected Superintendent of Public Schools, the law
there requiring the superintendent to examine teachers and grant
certificates. He also took an active
part in the city, county and State conventions.
Dr.
Haley came to the Pacific coast in 1865, and engaged in the practice of
medicine, being successfully and prominently identified with the profession in San Francisco and other portions of
the State for fifteen years.
In
1881 the Doctor was induced to identify himself with Heald’s
Business College, and since that time
has been the active head of its noted commercial school, and one of its
proprietors; and under his successful management it has attained its present
high standard. During the 1889 Dr. Haley
took a well-earned vacation. In April of
that year he and his estimable wife started on a tour around the world,
visiting England, France, Germany, Austria, India, Ceylon Island, China and
Japan, giving much time and attention in observing the educational methods in
all the countries visited; and in not one of them did he find a strictly commercial
college. He returned much benefited by
his tour, and is giving his co-educators the benefit of what he has observed
and acquired, his lectures being full of interest and instruction. He is also
contributor to magazines and educational journals. Dr. Haley is very genial, always approachable
and is justly popular with the students of the institution of which he is the
head.
Besides
the college, he is largely identified in developing the farming interests of
his adopted State, owning two raisin vineyards in Fresno county, also
interested in stock-raising in Tulare county, where blooded horses, both for
speed and draft, are produced for the market.
While he holds landed interests in other portions of the State, San
Joaquin valley is his favorite section, where in the main he is directing his
energies, having great confidence in the future of this far-famed valley.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 100-101, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna L.
Becker.
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