San Francisco County
Biographies
Charles McQuesten,
M. D.
Charles
McQuesten, M. D., whose office is at No. 24
Montgomery street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1875,
and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1863. He was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1844, and is
of English and Scotch descent, his father being a native of Scotland, and his
mother of English descent. His father,
Daniel P. McQuestin, was engaged during his lifetime
in the lumber business in Maine.
Charles
received his early education in the public schools of Bangor, and commenced the
study of medicine in 1860, entering the medical department of Dartmouth College
and graduated at that institution in 1863, receiving his degree as Doctor of
Medicine. Owing to the breaking out of
the war, and while still a student at Dartmouth, Dr. McQuesten
accompanied his preceptor, who was Surgeon of the Sixth Maine Infantry
Volunteers, to the field in the Army of the Potomac and assisted him in his
medical and surgical duties, meanwhile pursuing his regular studies. Immediately after
graduating at Dartmouth College Dr. McQuesten was
commissioned as assistant surgeon of this regiment, but was assigned to
hospital duty in Washington, where he remained six months. Early in 1864 he was ordered to the
department of the west and stationed at Santa Fe and other points in New Mexico
at various military posts, always on duty in the medical department. He left the United States medical service
early in 1867 and went to Mexico, where he practiced medicine for several
years. He then went to Europe, attending
the universities, hospitals and clinics in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and London,
and Madrid, Spain, for one and a half years; also visiting other points of
Europe. Returning to America he located
in San Francisco, where has since been engaged in the general practice of
medicine.
Dr.
McQuesten is a member of the Board of Health of San
Francisco, a member of the State Medical Society of California of which he is
one of the Censors, and also a member of the county Medical Society of San
Francisco. He is one of the United
States Examining Surgeons for pensions for San Francisco. Dr. McQuesten has
lately come prominently before the people of San Francisco in the matter of
investigating the milk supply of the city and of forcing the compliance by the
dairymen with the proper sanitary regulations.
Transcribed Karen L. Pratt.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 645-646, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Karen L. Pratt.