Jonathan T. McDonald, M. D.
Jonathan
T. McDonald, M. D., whose office is at No. 308 Fifth street, San Francisco, has
been a resident of California since 1880, and has been engaged in the practice
of medicine since 1884. He was born in New
Brunswick, Canada, in 1853, of Scotch parentage, his grandfather having come to
New Brunswick from Scotland in the latter part of the last century. On his mother’s side the family (Titus) were
United Empire Loyalists, who at the close of the Revolutionary war, removed
from New England to the British Provinces, and have since lived under the
British flag. The Titus family were of
English descent, who settled in New England in the early history of America,
and were so intensely loyal to the British Government that they refused to take
part against their mother country.
The
subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools of
New Brunswick, and later entered the Wesleyan Seminary at Kent’s Hill, Maine,
where he spent four years. He then
entered Colby University at Waterville, Maine, where he graduated in 1880 as
Bachelor of Arts. Mr. McDonald then
came to California, and for two years was principal of the public school at
Livermore, California. While engaged in
teaching he commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. W.
S. Taylor, then of that place. In 1882
he entered the Toland Medical College, now the medical department of the
University of California, which he attended for one year. He then entered the Cooper Medical College,
graduating in 1884, after a full three-years course, and receiving the degree
of Doctor of Medicine. After spending a
few months in Livermore, in practice with Dr. Taylor, Dr. McDonald located in
San Francisco, and has been engaged continuously in private practice since that
time. He is a member of the State
Medical Society of California, and of the County Medical Society of San
Francisco.
Transcribed
Karen L. Pratt.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 573, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2004 Karen L. Pratt.