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J. P. SCHMITZ, M. D.

J. P. Schmitz, M.D., whose office is at the California Medical College, No. 1442 Folsom street, San Francisco, a resident of California for thirty years, and engaged in the practice of medicine for the past ten years, is a native of Germany, born in 1834, and received his early education in the Government and private schools of that country.  At the age of twenty-one he came to America, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1874, when he retired from said business, having gained a competency.  During all his life, having had a desire for medical studies, feeling that he could now devote the balance of his life to his profession, he entered the Medical College of the Pacific (now Cooper College), in San Francisco, in 1875, remaining during the years 1785-6-8 (sic), continuing his medical studies until 1880, when he entered the California Medical College, graduating in the spring of 1881, and then entered into practice, in which he has successfully continued.

     In 1886 Dr. Schmitz was invited and appointed to the chair of Physiology and Nervous Diseases, in the California Medical College, still holding that position; being also a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, as well as a member of the State Medical Society of California, and of the County Medical society of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.

 

Transcribed 4-23-05  Marilyn R. Pankey

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 61-62, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.


© 2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 



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