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EDWIN WINDELE, M.D.
EDWIN WINDELE, M. D., whose office is
at No. 30 Post Street, San
Francisco, has been a resident of California
for the past thirteen years, during which time he has been engaged in the
practice of Medicine. He was born in Cork, Ireland,
in 1849, the son of John Windele, who held for many
years a prominent and responsible office under the British Government, and was
well known throughout that part of Ireland
as an antiquarian. Dr. Windele’s early education was
received in the Schools of the city of Cork, and his collegiate
course in Queen’s College, Cork,
where he spent five years. He commenced the study of medicine in 1869, at the
Queen’s College, taking his degree finally in 1877, at the Royal College of
Surgeons at Edinburgh, Scotland,
where he completed a full course of study covering two years. After a few
months spent on the continent of Europe, he came to California,
and engaged in practice in San Francisco,
where he has since continued. He is a member of the City and County Medical
Society of San Francisco. Dr. Windele is a
Commissioner of Insanity for the City and County
of San Francisco. He has devoted
himself exclusively to his private practice, in the building up of which he has
been very successful.
Transcribed
by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages 629-630,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2007 Kim Buck.
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