DR. JOSEPH FRANKLIN TWIST

Dr. Joseph Franklin Twist, whose office is at No. 906 Market street, San Francisco, was born in Los Angeles, California, in June, 1855, and is of English and Spanish descent, his father, Captain W. W. Twist, of the United States regular army, being a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of the pure Castilian stock, her grandfather having come to California from Spain before the Mexican independence, and settled in Santa Barbara.  Dr. Twist's father was stationed in Los Angeles in the '50s.  He later served in the war of the Rebellion, in which he lost his life in the service of his country.

     The subject of this sketch received his early education in the schools of Los Angeles.  In 1881 he entered the dental department of the University of California, the first matriculate of that department, where he remained two years, passing the regular examinations of that school. Immediately after graduating he entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has continued since that time in San Francisco, where he has built up an extensive patronage.  Dr. Twist if a member of the State Dental Association of California.

 

Transcribed 12-6-04  Marilyn R. Pankey