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ALBERT P. WOODWARD, M.
D.
Albert P. Woodward, M. D., whose office is
at the corner of California and Fillmore streets, San Francisco, has been a
resident of California since 1868, and has been engaged in the practice of
medicine since March, 1886. He was born
in Pleasantville, Iowa, in 1855. The Woodward family are
of English descent, the early settlers of that family in America coming over in the
sixteenth century. One of his ancestors
served in the Revolutionary war. His
grandfather settled in Ohio about 1823, and was a
pioneer settler of Iowa, coming to that State
in 1850.
Our subject received his early education at Santiam Academy, in Linn county, Oregon, where he attended for
six years. Later he attended the Pacific
Methodist College of Santa Rosa, where he graduated in 1876, receiving the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. Next he
engaged in teaching school, in which he continued, generally, until 1883. In June of that year he commenced the study
of medicine, entering the Cooper Medical College, where he spent one
year. He then went to New York and entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in
March, 1886, after a full course of three years, and receiving his degree as
Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Woodward was
then appointed house physician and surgeon of Charity Hospital on Blackwell’s Island, where he served one
and a half years. He was then appointed
resident physician and surgeon of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, in New York city, where he also remained one and a half years. He then returned to California in 1889, and located in
San
Francisco, where he has since been engaged in private
practice. While Dr. Woodward is engaged
in a general family practice, he has also made a special study of the diseases
of the skin, for which his experience in the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital has specially fitted
him.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 145, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna L.
Becker.
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