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LILLIA MILLER LOMAX, M. D.
LILLIA MILLER LOMAX, M. D.,
of Stockton, was born in Delhi, Ontario, April 10, 1858, a daughter of Joseph
A. and Eliza (McClellan) Miller, both natives of Canada, but residents of
California since 1875. Her father, born in 1829, became a physician of the old
school; her mother, born in 1838, is a resident of Stockton. Grandfather
William McClellan, became a Baptist minister, was pastor of a church in Delhi
twelve years, and died in Norwich, Canada, in 1868, at the age of fifty-six
years. Grandmother Mary (Cudney) McClellan lived to be
seventy-five, dying in 1887. Grandfather Cudney,
English by birth, was married to a Miss Grant, a native of the United States.
Grandmother Mary Miller lived to be seventy-nine. The children of Joseph A. and
Eliza Miller are: (1) the subject of this sketch. (2) Herschel B., born in
Norwich, Canada, January 31, 1860, educated in the local schools, came to
California in 1875, studied for some time in the State University at Berkeley,
taught school in Oakland, read law in the offices of J. Campbell and Judge Baldwin
for a while, then entered the office of a railroad president in San Francisco
as a secretary. He continued his legal studies in spare hours, and entered the
Hastings Law College of that city, and was admitted to the bar in 1887. He was
married in Oakland, in 1887, to Miss Aggie Martin, born in Milton, Canada,
about 1863. (3) Leila Ada, born in Galt, Canada, in
1865, was graduated at the Oakland high school and has learned stenography and
type-writing, and is now employed as stenographer in the office of George Seybolt, United States Mail Inspector, at San Francisco.
(4) William Gustavus Adolphus,
born in 1868, is also a stenographer. (5) Mary Eva Burdett, born December 15,
1871, is attending the Stockton high school.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools, graduated from the high school, and was married in Calistoga, California, in 1876, to E. L. Lomax, born in Ohio, in 1844, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lomax, and was divorced from him in the Oakland courts in 1879, being granted the custody of their two children, both born in San Leandro; Ada Burdette, December 21, 1876, and William Benoni, born July 4, 1878. Mrs. Lomax studied medicine from 1878 to 1881, and was graduated at the California Eclectic Medical College April 28, 1881, and came to Stockton in August of that year. She has built up a lucrative practice, making a specialty of the treatment of women and children, an important field of labor, in which she has been eminently successful.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 396. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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