San Francisco County
Biographies
GEORGE
H. MARTIN, M.D.
GEORGE H. MARTIN,
M.D., whose office is at No. 921 Polk street, San Francisco, has been a
resident of California since 1881, and has been engaged in the practice of
medicine since that time. He was born in
Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1859, and is of Scotch descent, but the family were among the early settlers of New
England. His great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary war in the
American army. His father, J. M. Martin, was killed during the war of the
Rebellion, being at the time a member of the Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry.
The subject of this
sketch received his early education in the graded schools of Middlebury,
Vermont, where he prepared for college and graduated in 1877. He then
commenced the study of medicine, entering the medical department of the Boston
University, where he graduated in 1881, after a four years’ course, receiving
his degree as Doctor of Medicine. While yet attending medical lectures he
received the appointment of Assistant Surgeon of the National Military Home for
Veterans at Hampton, Virginia, where his stepfather, Dr. A. J. Hare, was
surgeon in charge, and where he remained one year. Later he was for about
a year in the same position in the Soldiers’ Home, at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. In 1881 Dr. Martin came to San Francisco, where he remained one
year, engaged in private practice. In 1882 he went to the Sandwich
Islands, where for five years he was engaged in Practice in
Honolulu. Returning to California in 1887 the Doctor went to New York and
entered the Post-Graduate Medical School of that city, where he took the
post-graduate course. Returning to San Francisco in the spring of 1888, he
again engaged in the practice of his profession, where he has remained since
that time.
For two years Dr.
Martin held the Chair of Clinical Medicine and Electricity at the Hahnemann Hospital College. In 1890 he was appointed
to the Chair of Mental and Nervous Diseases. He is Secretary of the
California State Homeopathic Medical Society, a member of the State Board of
Medical Examiners, and also Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Hahnemann Hospital College of San Francisco.
Transcribed
by 10-23-06 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 163-164, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2006 Marilyn R. Pankey.