John Nightingale, M.D.

 

 

John Nightingale, M.D., whose office is at the corner of Van Ness avenue and Market street, San Francisco, was born in San Francisco, California, in 1855, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1875.  His early education was received in the public schools of his native place, graduating at the high school in 1873.  He then entered the medical department of the University of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, where he graduated in 1875, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  Dr. Nightingale then went to Europe, and entered the University of Berlin, Prussia, graduating in 1877, and receiving a diploma as Doctor of Medicine.  He remained one year in Venice, attending the hospital clinics, and in the same work for two years in Paris and London.  He then returned to California, and has devoted himself to general practice since that time.  For ten years he had his office at the corner of Market and Stockton streets; he has just built the large brick building at the corner of Van Ness avenue and Market street, which is six stories high.

     Dr. Nightingale's father, John Nightingale, is one of the pioneers of 1849, and has been one of the well-known business and real-estate  men in San Francisco for the past forty years.  The family are of English descent, and settled in New Jersey, where the Doctor's grandfather and father were born.  His great-grandfather came to America in the early history of the United States.  They owned cotton mills in the early history of the development of that manufacture in this country.

 

Transcribed 10-25-04  Marilyn R. Pankey