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WILLIAM F. MILLIGAN McALLISTER,
M. D.
W. F. M. McALLISTER, M. D., Has been a resident of California
for the past twenty years, during which time he has practiced medicine in San
Francisco. He was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1844, and his early education
was received in the public schools of that city. Later he graduated at a private academy in
that city. His family having removed to Kansas,
he there commenced the study of medicine, in 1861. On the breaking out of the
war, he entered the service in the Ninth Regiment of Kansas Cavalry, and from
this regiment he was promoted as Hospital Steward in the regular army,
stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
He was afterwards sent to the front with the Army of the Tennessee,
and was serving in the hospitals about the time of the battle of Nashville.
He was later sent to the United States General Hospital
at Indianapolis, where he continued
until the close of the war.
In
1865 Dr. McAllister entered the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia,
and finally graduated in 1870, after a four year course. Meanwhile he practiced
for a short time in Kansas. He
then made a voyage around the world, as a surgeon in the employ of the Pacific
Medical Company, which had arranged an excursion around the world. He made the
trip from New York to China
on the Arizona in 1870, and completed the excursion on
the Steamer Alaska to San Francisco.
The Doctor then entered into practice in this city and has continued since that
time, and for eleven years has occupied the position of Quarantine Officer of
the Port of San Francisco, for three years the position of United States
Quarantine Officer at this port, and United States Commissioner of Immigration
for nearly four years. He was Surgeon of the second Regiment of Artillery, N.
G. C., from which he was promoted Brigade Surgeon, with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel of the second Brigade, N. G. C. He is also a member of the
State and County Medical Societies.
Transcribed
by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages 626-627,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2007 Kim Buck.
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