GEORGE M. TERRILL, M.D.
GEORGE
M. TERRILL, M.D., whose office is at No. 400 Stockton Street, San Francisco,
has been a resident of California for the past six years, during which time he
has been engaged in the practice of medicine on the Pacific coast. He was born Salem, Shenandoah Valley,
Virginia, in 1859. His earlier years
were passed in close contact with the vivid scenes of the terrible war, which
for four years was waged so near his home, and as a boy he has picked up many
relics of bloody conflict with in common shot distance of his own home.
His
early education was received at the Roanoke College at Salem, where he remained
until the age of nineteen years. He
then went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the study of medicine at the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of
1883. He at once answered upon the
practice of his profession at his native place, where he remained for ten
years. Mr. Terrill entered the United
States army as assistant surgeon, and took part in the Apache Pass campaign in
Arizona and new Mexico. After one
year's service he resigned, having determined to practice medicine in San
Francisco, and he has been located here since that time. The Doctor has succeeded to the practice of
his brother, the late Dr. F. H. Terrill, who died of small-pox in 1888 in San
Francisco, at the age of thirty-four years, in the very flush of a successful
and brilliant career. Both of these
gentlemen are physicians by inheritance, having sprung from an ancestral line
of physicians. Dr. Frank H. Terrill was
a graduate of the University of Virginia, and after a post-graduate course at
Philadelphia he joined the United States navy as surgeon and passed several
years in that service. Coming to Californian
1881, his splendid abilities soon won for him a brilliant position, both
socially and professionally. He was a
martyr in his devotion to his love of humanity and his profession. He was one of the Presidents of the
International Medical Congress, which met in Washington in 1887. Dr. Geo. M. Terrill has been for some time
Brigade Surgeon and Colonel of the First Regiment of Infantry. N. G. C.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco" Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company 1892.
Page 478.
Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.
© 2004 Nancy Pratt
Melton
San Francisco County California Biography Project