San Francisco County
Biographies
SIDNEY WORTH, M. D.
SIDNEY WORTH, M. D., whose office is at No. 426 Sutter street, San Francisco, has been a resident of
California since 1855, and has
practiced medicine in this city since 1874.
He was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1846, the son of
George F. Worth, who is now an assistant at the United States Marshal’s office,
is over eighty years old and was one of the pioneers of California, having arrived here
early in 1850. In the early days he was engaged in mining and various other
pursuits. He was at one time County Judge of Contra Costa county, and has been since 1862 an attaché of the United
States Circuit Court. The family is the
early New
England
stock, being descended in one branch of the family from John Woodland, one of
the Pilgrims who came in the Mayflower.
Our
subject received his education in the public schools of San Francisco, where he graduated in
the Latin department of the high school in 1867. He then entered the Dartmouth College and graduated at that
institution in 1871, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He returned to California and commenced the study
of medicine at the University of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, where he took one full
and one intermediate course. Dr. Worth
then went to New
York,
where he entered the Homeopathic Medical College, at which he graduated
in 1874. He came to San Francisco and at once entered
upon the practice of medicine, in which he has since been continuously
engaged. He holds the chair of
Obstetrics in the Hahnemann Hospital College, in which he had
previously held the chair of the diseases of the chest. He is also one of the visiting physicians to
the Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital. Dr. Worth is a member of the State Society of
Medical Examiners.
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Page 657,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.
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