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JAMES A. C. ROEDER, M.D.
JAMES A. C.
ROEDER, M.D., whose office is at the southeast corner of Filbert and Mason
streets, San Francisco, has been a
resident of California for the
past fifteen years, and a medical practitioner twenty-nine years. He was born on the banks of the Rhine
in Prussia in
1836, and his early education was received first in the public primary schools,
and later in the gymnasium, from which he passed the usual Government
examinations. He commenced the study of
medicine at the University of Giesen, Germany,
in 1857, and graduated at that institution in 1861, receiving the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. For about six years
Dr. Roeder practiced as Assistant Surgeon in the hospitals of Vienna, Stuttgart
and Paris, settling down to private practice in his native place in 1868, where
he remained until he came to San Francisco in 1876. Since that time he has devoted himself to a
strictly private practice in this city, and most of the time in the same
locality.
Dr. Roeder’s
father was a District Judge in his native place for the last fifteen years of
his life. He had been State’s Attorney
from the age of twenty-five to thirty years, and from that age until his death
he held a judicial position. His
forefathers have been professional men for many generations: one of his ancestors established the first
woolen factory in his part of Germany,
and another in Frederic, Denmark. One of Dr. Roeder’s children, Lily, at less
than twelve years of age was graduated at the Broadway grammar school for
admission to the high school. She is
also a wonderful performer and composer of music for a child of that age.
Transcribed 10-30-05 Marilyn R. Pankey
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages 272-273,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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