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CHARLES ALBERT McCASH, M. D.

C. A. McCASH, M. D., whose office is at No. 1236 Market street (Murphy Building), was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1849. His early education was received in the public schools of that city, and later he took an academic course in the Baptist Academy at Burlington. While attending school he enlisted, in 1864, in the Forty-fifth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, serving for one year, and most of the time in the Army of the Tennessee, under Colonel A. J. Smith, and operating mainly against Colonel Forrest in West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi. After the close of the war Mr. McCash went to Poughkeepsie, New York where he took a business course in Eastman’s Business College. In 1867 he commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Powers, of Burlington, Iowa, with whom he studied one year. Later he studied for six months with Dr. Theophilus Parvin of Indianapolis, Indiana. He then entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1871, after a full course of three years, at the age of twenty-one years. He at once entered upon the practice of medicine, in which he has since been continuously engaged, first in Cincinnati one year, then in St. Louis until the fall of 1875, and since that time in San Francisco.

Dr. McCash is of Scotch descent. The family settled in this country just previous to the Revolutionary war, his great-grandfather having been a soldier under Washington in that war. The family were among the early settlers of Ohio, coming to the State soon after the close of the war. His father, W. B. McCash, was for about sixteen years a resident of San Jose, where he was interested in fruit-growing and real-estate.

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 677-678, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.

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