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DR. ANDREW
W. HOISHOLT
DR. A. W. HOISHOLT, Assistant
Physician of the State Insane Asylum, and one of the leading physicians of
Stockton, is a native of Denmark, born in August, 1858. When a mere lad he came
with his uncles to the United States, locating at Chicago. When they left there
in 1875, he was attending the Chicago High School. They removed to Stockton,
and he continued his education in the high school of this city, where he was
graduated in 1877. He then commenced the study of medicine, preparatory to a
college course in that science, and afterward began attendance at the Cooper
Medical College, San Francisco, where he was graduated in the class of 1882. He
then went to Heidelberg, Germany, and was graduated from that world-renowned
institution in 1884. This thorough training was then supplemented by practical
experience in the leading hospitals of the European capitals, where he made a
specialty of the study of nervous diseases, and in 1886 he returned to
California, after seven years continuous preparation for his chosen profession.
He had made arrangements to lecture at Cooper Medical College, but his health
having suffered from his long and severe course of study, he spent six months
in rusticating. His strength recovered, he located in Stockton, where he has
since been engaged in active and successful practice. When the board of
trustees of the State Insane Asylum met in 1889, to fill the vacancy in the
medical staff of the institution caused by the death of Dr. Washington, the
name of Dr. Hoisholt was presented, with a number of others, to fill the
vacancy, and he was chosen by the board for the important position.
Dr. Hoisholt is a member of the San
Joaquin Medical Society. Though a young man, no physician stands higher with
his colleagues of the profession than he.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 344. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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