San Francisco County
FREDERICK LIGHT TURPIN
F. L. TURPIN, capitalist, has been a resident
of
The subject of this sketch received his early education in the
public schools of his native county. He
is practically a self-made man, having been brought up on his father’s farm,
working in summer and attending school in winter. At the age of seventeen years, in 1864, he
enlisted in Company D, First Battalion of 100-day Pennsylvania Volunteers, and
served during that term of enlistment.
At its close he again enlisted, this time in Company D., Twenty-first
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served until the close of the war in the Army of the
Mr. Turpin was married in 1877, to Miss Isabella McNew, a native of
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Page 660, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
HENRY
L. WAGNER, M. D., whose office is at No. 506 Sutter street, San Francisco, is a
native of California, was educated at the University of Freiburg,
Germany, and afterward at the University of Heidelberg, same country, receiving
his diploma from the faculty of philosophy at Freiberg, and his medical diploma
from the University of Würzburg, Bavaria. After his graduation he was Assistant
Lecturer at the Physiological Institute of the Royal University of Professor
Fisk; he was later an assistant to the Nose and Throat Infirmary of Professor
B. Frankel of Berlin; and later he was a student at the laboratory of the
celebrated Professor Koch, in the study of bacteriology. He then returned to California and has since
been engaged in the practice of his profession in San Francisco, devoting
himself especially to diseases of the nose and throat, and also of the
respiratory organs. He is now Surgeon to
the Nose and Throat Department of the San Francisco Polyclinic.
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Pages 660-661, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L. Becker.