Shasta County
Biographies
PAUL WRIGHT, M. D.
Mount Shasta is fortunate in having
among its professional men a physician of the character and ability of Dr. Paul
Wright, who has practiced medicine and surgery here for the past eighteen years
with notable success. The Doctor was
born in Missouri, on the 11th of June, 1874, a son of William and
Henrietta (Thompson) Wright. When he was
three years old, the family left Missouri for Chicago, Illinois, where the
father became manager for the Home Insurance Company, and was engaged in
writing fire insurance there during the remainder of his life.
Paul Wright attended the public
schools of Chicago and the high school at Evanston, after which he matriculated
in Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in 1903. He entered upon the
practice of his profession at Thirty-first and Halsted streets, Chicago, where
he remained until 1912, when he came to Mount Shasta, which is located at the
foot of the mountain of that name, and is a most delightful place to live. It is about four thousand feet above the sea,
has an unfailing supply of ice cold water from the mountain and is favored with
a fine summer climate and mild winters.
Here Dr. Wright has built up a large general practice, and has been
physician and surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad for the past seventeen
years. He had four professional
competitors here when he started in, but now has only one, who arrived
recently.
Dr. Wright is a Republican in his
political views and is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Mount Shasta. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and in
every way within his power he contributes to the prosperity and welfare of the
community, which it is believed will someday be one of the most popular resorts
in the west. Fishing, hunting and golf
are the Doctor’s favorite diversions.
His strong social qualities have enabled him to win a host of warm friends,
while his professional skill and success have gained for him the uniform esteem
of the people among whom he lives.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Wooldridge,
J. W. Major, History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 3 Pages
393-394. Pioneer
Historical Publ. Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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