San Francisco County
BENJAMIN STURMAN, M. D.
BENJAMIN STURMAN, M. D., whose office is in St.
Anne’s Building in San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1852,
and has been engaged in the practice of medicine in this State, and most of the
time in San Francisco, since 1865. He
was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1824, on his
father’s farm near Coshocton, the son of James and Eliza (Bailey) Sturman, who
were natives of Virginia and moved to Ohio in 1816. His mother’s family were
among the earliest settlers of Virginia, and his father’s father was a native
of Wales, of German parentage, who came to America about the time of the
Revolutionary war. His father was a
soldier in the war of 1812. Benjamin
received his early education in his native town, and later attended the
Muskingum College in Zanesville, Ohio.
He commenced the study of medicine soon after leaving the college, under
the preceptorship of Dr. Berry of New Concord, Ohio. Mr. Sturman entered the Eclectic Medical
College of Cincinnati, which he attended for one year. He then came to
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Page 648, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.