San Francisco County
Biographies
SOLOMAN
S. STAMBAUGH, M. D.
Solomon S. Stambaugh, M. D., whose office is at No. 640 Clay street,
San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1852, and engaged in the
practice of medicine since 1851. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1828; his family are of French descent, his grandfather having come to
Pennsylvania about 1790 from Alsace, France, and his mother’s family about the
same time, from the same part of France.
They later moved to Ohio, and were among its earliest settlers. Solomon received his early education in the
public schools of Columbus, and later in Carter’s Academy at the same
place. He commenced the study of
medicine in 1846, as a pupil of the Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Starling
Medical College of that city, graduating at that school in 1857. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1851
in Delaware county, Ohio, where he continued about
seven months.
In 1852 Dr. Stambaugh crossed the plains to California with ox teams,
taking six months for the trip from the Missouri river to the coast. He mined a few months during the winter of
1852-3, and then went to South America, where he engaged in the practice of
medicine in Valparaiso, Chili. He was
also Surgeon to the American Hospital. The
Doctor returned to California in 1855, and was engaged in the practice of medicine
until the breaking out of the Rebellion.
He then went East, and was appointed by the
United States Examining Surgeon of recruits, in which duty he continued five
years, and was then engaged in hospital service until the close of the
war. He was an operating surgeon at the
United States Seminary Hospital at Camp Thomas and also at Camp Dennison. At the close of the war Dr. Stambaugh returned to California, where he again engaged in
the practice of his profession in San Mateo county. In 1868 he returned East, and became a member
of the house of Fuller, Childs & Co., wholesale boot and shoe dealers and
manufacturers of Toledo, Ohio, in which business he remained four years. He then became a member of the law firm of
Lockwood & Everett, Toledo, Ohio, dealing
extensively in lands. He returned to
California in 1877, and engaged in the practice of medicine in San Francisco,
and later becoming Master of the City Receiving Hospital and one of the
consulting surgeons of St. Mary’s Hospital, where he remained until 1883. In that year the Doctor again went East, and with other associates became interested in the
pine timber lands of Alabama and Mississippi, which was a disastrous
investment. He returned to California in
1885 and has since been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine.
Transcribed
Karen L. Pratt.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 656, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.
©
2005 Karen L. Pratt.