San Francisco County
Biographies
James
Simpson, M. D.
James Simpson,
M. D., whose office is at No. 234 Post street, San Francisco, has been a
resident of California since 1857, and has been engaged in the practice of
medicine since March, 1855. He was born
in Aroostook county, Maine, in 1829, and is of
Scotch-Irish descent, his father having been born in Scotland and his mother in
the north of Ireland. Our subject
received his early education in the private schools of his neighborhood, and
several years of his early manhood was passed in teaching school in
Canada. In 1852 he commenced the study
of medicine, under a preceptor, and later attended medical lectures at the
Albany Medical College, and graduated from the University of the City of New
York in 1855. Dr. Simpson engaged in the
practice of his profession first as a surgeon of an Atlantic steamer between
New York and Liverpool. Later he
practiced medicine in Calais, Maine, until he came to California in1857. He engaged in his profession in this State first
in Yuba county, until 1863, and then in Grass Valley, Nevada county, until
1872. In that year he came to San
Francisco, where he has since been continuously engaged in the general practice
of medicine.
Dr. Simpson was
for some years connected with the medical department of the University of
California, occupying the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
He was appointed on the Board of Health of San Francisco by Governor
Booth, reappointed by Governor Perkins and again appointed by Governor Stoneman, holding the position for twelve years. He is now a member of the State Board of
Health of California, and also a member of the State Medical Society of
California, and of the County Medical Society of San Francisco. He is a modest, unassuming man, and with the
staid, dignified, sterling qualities of his race, he has by rectitude, medical
skill and moral deportment, gained a high reputation as a physician, and
universal esteem as a professional gentleman.
Transcribed
Karen L. Pratt.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 649, Lewis Publishing
Co, 1892.
©
2005 Karen L. Pratt.