D.
F. Ragan, M. D., whose office is at No. 8 Sixth street, San Francisco, has been
engaged in the practice of medicine in this city since 1886. He was born at Iowa Hill, Placer county,
California, in 1861, the son of Denis Ragan, who was one of the pioneer
settlers of California, and who was early interested in placer and quartz
mining in Placer and Nevada counties.
Our subject received his early education in the public schools of Grass
Valley, Nevada county, California, graduating at the high school of that city
in 1878. He then took a preparatory
course for admission to the State University, and soon after engaged in
teaching in Nevada county, reaching finally the grade of teacher of the junior
class in the Grass Valley high school. This position he resigned to accept the principalship of the
commercial department of the Lincoln evening school in San Francisco. While engaged in this position Mr. Ragan commenced
the study of medicine, entering the Cooper Medical College in 1883, at which
institution he graduated in 1886, after a full three-years course. The position of house surgeon of the City
and County Hospital was open to the three students standing highest in their
classes, one of whom was Dr. Ragan, and he still retained the position of
principal of the Lincoln evening school, but which he resigned in 1889, after
having taught ten years, and after having received a life diploma from the
State of California. Meanwhile he had
resigned his place in the hospital in 1888, and engaged in private practice in
this present location. Dr. Ragan is now
assistant to the Chair of Nervous Diseases at the Cooper Medical College, and
is also Secretary of the Alumni Association of that college. He is the first Grand Medical Examiner
elected by the Young Men’s Institute, which office he still holds.
Transcribed by
Donna L. Becker
Source: "The
Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 582, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2004 Donna L. Becker.