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SAMUEL R. ARTHUR
The name of Samuel R. Arthur is
closely connected with the history of the medical profession of California and
more especially with Lodi, having practiced for twenty-two years in the
city. He is a native of California,
having been born in Stockton on April 17, 1874, a son of Richard and Anna (Alles) Arthur, both natives of England. His father made his first trip to the United
States in the late ‘50s and located in Indiana; he then returned to England for
a time and when he returned to the United States in the early ‘60s he located
in California, going direct to the mines; but later settled in Stockton where
he engaged in teaming and contracting.
There were four children in the family, three of whom are now
living. Dr. Edgar A. Arthur residing in
Stockton; Mrs. E. M. Tremper; Ethel, who was a
teacher in the Stockton high school is deceased, and Samuel R. Arthur, the
subject of this sketch. Both parents are
now deceased.
Samuel R. Arthur attended the public
schools of Stockton and upon leaving the Stockton high school he pursued a
special scientific course in a private school, after which he entered the
University of California and was graduated from that institution with the class
of 1899 with the degree of M. D. He then
became an interne in the San Joaquin County Hospital and in 1900 located in
Lodi, forming a partnership with Dr. Hull, the association continuing until
1905 when Dr. Hull removed to Stockton.
Eminently successful in his chosen profession, Dr. Arthur has also been
active in land development, having planted a thirty-acre vineyard east of
Acampo, which he sold at the end of four years.
At the present time he is the owner of two fine ranches in the Escalon
district consisting of 117 acres, on which he maintains a fine herd of Holstein
dairy cows, besides raising Poland China hogs.
His ranches are planted to alfalfa and vineyard, on which he raises very
fine grapes which are one of the most profitable crops of the San Joaquin Valley. He has brought his ranches to a high state of
cultivation. He makes his home in
Woodbridge and is a member of the school board of that district.
Dr. Arthur’s marriage united him
with Miss Lillian Freeman, a native of Kansas, but reared and educated in
California and they are the parents of two children, Samuel R., Jr., and Grace
Wynette. In his fraternal association,
Dr. Arthur is past master of the Woodbridge lodge No. 131, F. & A. M., a
member of the Stockton Knights Templar and of the Stockton Elks. He is past noble grand of the Woodbridge
Lodge No. 98, I. O. O. F., and belongs to the Knights of Pythias of Woodbridge,
and is a member of the state and county medical societies and of Lodi Parlor N.
S. G. W.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
657-658. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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