Daniel Kienborts, M. D.

 

Daniel Kienborts, M. D., whose office is at No. 20 Sixth street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1872, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1880.  He was born in Sringfield, Ohio, in 1840, and is of Swiss descent, his great-grandfather having been a native of that country, and later came to the United States and participated in the Revolutionay war.  On his mother’s side his great-grandfather was a native of France, and also served in that war, under La Fayette.

 

The subject of this sketch is essentially a self-made and self-educated man, his early facilities for an education having been limited, and his studies were made mostly at night, after his working hours were over.  He commenced to learn a trade at the age of fourteen years, which he followed until the breaking out of the war.  He then entered the Union army in 1861, in response to President Lincoln’s first call for 75,000 volunteers, entering the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1862 entered the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until 1863.  In that year he was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company A, Fourteenth Regiment United States Colored Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war, having been promoted Captain of Company F, in 1865.  The Doctor took part in the engagements at Philadelphia, Laurel Hill, Carrie’s Ford, Dalton, Georgia, Pulaski, Tennessee, Decatur, Alabama, Mill Creek, and at Nashville, Tennessee, during December 5, 7, 15 and 16, 1864, when Hood’s army was annihilated.  He was mustered out of the service March 26, 1866, after which he engaged in the manufacture of furniture.  In that year he came to California, where he commenced the study of medicine,  In 1877 he entered the Medical College of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, where he graduated in 1880, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine.  He at once entered into private practice in San Francisco, where he has since continued.