J. R. Redman, M. D.

 

J. R. Redman, M. D., whose office is at  No. 36 ½ Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of the Pacific coast since 1880, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since that year.  He was born in Edgar county, Illinois, in 1848, and is of English and German extraction.  His family were among the early settlers of Virginia, and later among the pioneers of Kentucky and Illinois.  Our subject received his early education in the public schools of his native county.  In August, 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war.  He was with his regiment at the battle of Perryville, where he received five gunshot wounds and was left on the field during the retreat of the Union army.  He was taken prisoner and in about ten days paroled, and after being in the hospital for about three months at Louisville, Kentucky, he was sent to Columbus, Ohio, and exchanged.  He was returned to his command, but being badly shattered by his wounds was transferred in July, 1863, to the Veteran Reserve Corps, in which he served until the close of the Rebellion.

 

For several years after the war Dr. Redman was engaged in mercantile pursuits.  In 1875 he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated in 1882, at the American Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine.  He then came to the Pacific coast and engaged in practice in the State of Oregon far four years.  Later he practiced four years in Carson, Nevada.  In 1890 he came to San Francisco, where he engaged in the general practice of his profession.  Dr. Redman is a member of the State Medical Society of California, and also of the National Eclectic Medical Association.