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CLIFFORD L. DeVINNY, M. D.
CLIFFORD L. DeVINNY, M. D., of Stockton, was born in Newark, Wayne
County, New York, October 18, 1848, a son of Richard A. and H. M. (Mosher) DeVinny. The father, born in that State in 1819, died in
1879; the mother, born in 1830, is still living. The grandparents on both sides
were well advanced in years when they died. Two of the grand-uncles Mosher are still living, aged over eighty.
The subject of this sketch
received the usual district-school education in his youth, and an academic
education of three years in Starkey’s Seminary on Seneca Lake. He then entered
the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, taking a
full medical course and graduating in 1876. He first practiced in Rochester,
New York, eight years, and in 1884 came to California, and has since practiced
in Stockton.
Dr. C. L. DeVinny
was married in Newark, Wayne County, New York, July 4, 1876, to Miss Hattie E.
Landon. The maternal grandmother, by birth a Miss Oakley, is still living in
Newark, New York, aged about eighty-four. Mr. and Mrs. DeVinny
are the parents of two living children: Richard Harold, born June 8, 1880, and
Florence Sylvia, born August 3, 1882.
Dr. DeVinny
is a member of Truth Lodge, No. 55, I. O. O. F., and of Security Lodge, No. 83,
Chosen Friends, and also of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 446-447. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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