San Francisco County
Biographies
A. C. POSEY, M. D.
A. C. POSEY, M. D.,
whose office is at 106 Stockton street,
San Francisco, has been a resident
of California for fifteen years,
during all of which time he has practiced medicine in Oakland
and San Francisco. He was born on his father’s plantation near Henderson,
Kentucky, May 29, 1849. His
father was William Thornton Posey, the fourth son of Captain John Posey and his
wife Lucy Thornton. Captain John Posey
was the first son of General Thomas Posey, who figured very conspicuously in
the Revolutionary war; afterward he was the second Governor of the State of
Indiana, State Senator of Kentucky, and United States Senator from Louisiana.
A. C. Posey, the
subject of this sketch, was the eighth son and thirteenth child of William
Thornton Posey and his wife, Eliza Dixon, daughter of Captain Hal Dixon, who
was State Senator of Kentucky for several terms of its Legislature, first
cousin of Archibald Dixon, who was United States Senator from Kentucky. Dr Posey’s early education was received in
the schools in and around Henderson,
and his collegiate course was completed at B. B. Sayres’
school at Frankfort, Kentucky
and the Kentucky Military Institute in Franklin
county, Kentucky. He afterward engaged in farming in Henderson
county. Early
evincing a taste for the healing art, he would doctor anything that was taken
sick on his father’s plantation, from sick chicken to a sick horse. In 1870 he commenced the study of medicine,
under the preceptorship of Dr. William Hanna, of Henderson,
Kentucky, with whom he studied two
years. In 1873 he entered the medical
department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky,
where he attended two courses of lectures.
He then entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, of Louisville,
where he graduated, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery in
1875. He at once entered practice at St.
Louis, Missouri, remaining
there one year.
On arriving in California,
he located in Oakland, where he did
a general practice, in both medicine and surgery, from 1876 to 1880, deciding
in the meantime to devote himself to the special diseases of the eye, ear,
throat and nose as soon as his finances would permit. In the spring of 1880 he went to Europe and
devoted two and a half years to the study of those specialties in hospitals of
London, Paris, Vienna and Halle (Prussia), receiving
instructions from such men as Sir Morrell Mackenzie, of the Throat Hospital,
Golden Square, London; Nettleship, Tweedy, Gunn and
Lawson, surgeons to the royal London Ophthalmic Hospital at Moorfields,
London, E. C.; Fauvel and Landolt,
at Paris; Billroth, Politzer,
Gruber, Schroetter, Urbanschitch
and Alt, at Vienna; Schwartze and Alfred Graffe, at Halle.
On returning to
California he located permanently in San Francisco, where he has since devoted
himself to practice in those special diseases—eye, ear, throat, nose and
gullet.
Dr. Posey is a
member of the State Medical society of California
and the County Medical Society of San Francisco.
Transcribed
by Cathi Skyles.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 297-298, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Cathi Skyles.
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