San Francisco County
Biographies
FRANK H. HARRISON, M. D.
FRANK
H. HARRISON, M. D., office at No. 427 Sutter street, San Francisco, has been a resident of
California since June, 1889, and
has been engaged in the practice of medicine for the past eight years. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in
1856, the son of John C. I. Harrison, who is a native of the same State, and
grandson of William Henry Harrison, formerly President of the United
States. He is a first cousin of
President Benjamin Harrison. The family
are of old Virginia stock, originally from England. The father of President William Henry
Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, was one of the signers of the Declaration of
American Independence, representing Virginia in that document.
The
subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools of Indianapolis, where he graduated at
the high school in 1875. He then entered
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1875, where he spend four years and
graduated after a full scientific course in 1879, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy. He then
commenced the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and
at the same time studied under the preceptorship of Dr. Thomas M. Markoe,
professor of the principles of surgery in that college. He graduated in 1882, after a three-years
course, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He then passed his examination at Roseville Hospital, New York city, and intered the
hospital as interne, where he remained for the regular term of service,
eighteen months. Mr. Harrison then
entered into the practice of medicine in New York city, in which he continued
for one year; he was at the same time assistant to the chair of general
medicine at the Post-Graduate School of New York. Later he was also assistant to the chair of
general surgery of the New York Polyclinic.
He had a class in the diseases of the skin at the Northern Dispensary in
Waverly Place, New York city. In April,
1885, Mr. Harrison returned to Salt Lake City and practiced medicine there for
four years. While there he was for
eighteen months Attending Surgeon of the Deseret Hospital of Salt Lake
City. Dr. Harrison came to California in
June 1889, and located in San Francisco, where he is now engaged in practice.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 674-675, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.
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