Shasta County
Biographies
EDWIN J. CORNISH, M. D.
The medical profession of northern
California has no representative who occupies a more enviable position than Dr.
E. J. Cornish, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at
Dunsmuir, California. He entered his
chosen profession with splendid educational equipment, and he has remained a
close student of the development of medicine and surgery throughout the years
of his labors. He has not hesitated to
cast aside old theories and practices in favor of new discoveries which have
proven of merit, and he has won outstanding success in ministering to the
people of his city and county.
Doctor Cornish was born at Vernon
Center, Minnesota, July 30, 1874, a son of Edwin D. and Mary Ann (Pew)
Cornish. His father, a native of New
York State, was a farmer by occupation and settled at Vernon Center in the
pioneer epoch of Minnesota, where he died in 1910. His widow yet resides at Vernon Center. They were the parents of ten children, eight
of whom are now living.
Edwin J. Cornish attended the common
schools of Vernon Center and the high school at Mankato, Minnesota, where he
graduated in 1895. He then became a
student in the famous Rush Medical College at Chicago, Illinois, and received
his professional degree from this institution in 1902. He also attended the University of Wisconsin,
at Madison, for two years, 1896-1897, and the University of Minnesota for two
years, 1898-1899. He served as an
interne at Elizabeth, New Jersey, and took six months post-graduate work at
Vienna, Austria. In 1904 he came to the
state of California, living at La Moine until 1910, and was physician for the
La Moine Lumber Company. He then came to
Dunsmuir, where he has since followed his profession and has built up a most
lucrative practice. He is a member of
the Shasta County Medical Society, the California State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. Doctor
Cornish is a Democrat in his political faith and was mayor of Dunsmuir for
three terms. He is now a member of the
town board.
In 1910, Doctor Cornish was married
to Miss Sue Pascoe, and they have become the parents of four children,
namely: Richard, attending Junior
College at Sacramento, Robert, also a student at Junior College; and Ruth and
Peter, who are pupils in the local grammar school. Doctor Cornish has consistently taken a
helpful interest in affairs of local import, and he well understands and
fulfills the duties of exemplary citizenship.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Wooldridge,
J. W. Major, History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 3 Pages
292-293. Pioneer
Historical Publ. Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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