SAMUEL NEWMAN, M. D.

 

Samuel Newman, M. D., whose office is situated at No. 544 Third street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1867, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1879.  He was born in Bristol, England, in 1853, the son of Joseph Cambridge Newman, who is interested in coal mines in England, owning mines that have been operated and owned in the family for many generations.  Samuel received his early education from private tutors, and in 1858 commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. J. Highett of Bristol, with whom he studied for four years.  The next fifteen years Dr. Newman was engaged in the drug business in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Texas and San Francisco.  In 1876 he entered the Medical College of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, where after a three years’ course he graduated, in 1879, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine.  Mr. Newman at once engaged in the practice of his profession, in which position he has since remained.  For two years Dr. Newman was physician to the Children’s Hospital, and is a member of the County Medical Society of San Francisco.