C.J. Sharp, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the district schools and helped on the farm in his youth.  He attended high school three years in Marble Rock and one year in the Ames Agricultural college.  He then taught school three years.  Having conceived the desire, at the age of fifteen, of becoming a physician and still cherishing that ambition, he became a druggist’s clerk in 1885, and began to read medicine under Dr. J.W. Rue of Greeley, Iowa.  After eighteen months in too close application, he found it necessary to come to this coast to recuperate, and staid six months.  Returning to Iowa for a brief period he again came to this coast in June, 1887.  He then took a full course in the California Eclectic Medical College and was graduated at that institution November 23, 1889.  By invitation of Dr. H.T. Webster Professor of Theory and Practice in that college, and President of the Eclectic Medical Society, he became a partner with him in his general practice.  He is a member of the county and State medical societies of the Eclectic school, and makes a specialty of diseases of the nose, throat, and ears.