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FISHER R. CLARKE, M.D.
On the pages of Stockton’s pioneer
history appears the name of Fisher R. Clarke, who, for more than thirty years,
has practiced the medical profession in that city. He was born in the rural districts near
Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, and received his education in the public
schools of his native county; he was then employed as a school teacher in
Somerset and Penobscot counties for several years. During the year 1872 he came west to
California on one of the early emigrant trains to cross the continent and upon
arrival in Sacramento taught school for two years. In 1874 he took up his residence in Stockton
and founded the Stockton Business College, which he conducted successfully for
twelve years. For two years he taught
mathematics in the California Military Academy in Oakland, California. Following this he took up the study of
medicine in the Cooper Medical College of San Francisco and in 1891 was
graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine located at Louisville, and
during the same year started practicing medicine in Stockton. For the past twenty-eight years he has been
surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Stockton. Dr. Clarke has also been interested and
active in farming pursuits in the San Joaquin Valley, having owned and farmed
to grain and stock, a section of land near Escalon, which he later disposed of.
Dr. Clarke’s marriage united him
with Miss Mae A. Corson, a native of Maine and an old student. They are the parents of one son, Reed M. Clarke,
an attorney of San Francisco. He is a
graduate of the Stockton high school and the University of California; at one
time was assistant district attorney of San Joaquin County; he is now
associated with the firm of Klein, Clarke & Gerlach. During the World War he was commissioned a
lieutenant. Dr. Clarke has always been
active in the educational affairs of Stockton and San Joaquin County and has served
as a member of the Stockton Board of Education.
Many prominent business and professional men of Stockton were students
of Dr. Clarke during the time of his management of the Stockton Business
College. He is a member of the national,
state and county medical societies, and fraternally is a member of the Knights
of Pythias and the United Workmen. In
whatever line of work he has been engaged, his plans and ideas have been a
constructive nature, and his popularity and success has been achieved by
conscientious toil and intelligent application to the task in hand.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
408-411. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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