San Joaquin County
Biographies
JAMES CULBERTSON McCALL, M. D.
JAMES CULBERTSON McCALL, M.
D., of Stockton, was born in Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio, May 25, 1855, a
son of Dr. J. H. and Cynthia Howe (Wilhelm) McCall. The father, a native of
Ohio, practiced in Cumberland for thirty years before his death, in 1878, at
the age of sixty-one. The mother, born in Ohio in 1821, came to Stockton toward
the close of 1885, and is living here in 1889. Grandfather Wilhelm, a native of
Kentucky, of German descent, moved to Ohio and was there married to a daughter
of Colonel Chandler, from whom Chandlersville, in Muskingum County, was named.
She lived to an advanced age. Grandfather McCall, a native of Pennsylvania,
died in Ohio, about 1859, at the age of seventy; grandmother McCall, by birth a
Miss Patten, of Pennsylvania, survived him six years, and was also quite old.
James McCall, a brother of the elder Dr. McCall, is living in Illinois, in
1890, at the age of seventy and a sister died in Ohio in 1887, aged
seventy-six.
The subject of this sketch was graduated
from the high school in Cumberland, read medicine with his father, attended
medical lectures in Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the medical college
of that city in March, 1879. He first practiced in his native town, where his
father had practiced so many years. He afterward took a special course at
Bellevue, New York, and also a post-graduate course in that city, when he
resumed practice in Cumberland, Ohio, and there remained until he came to
Stockton, in December, 1885. For eighteen months he was associated with Dr. D.
Peyton, in this city, and has since then practiced alone. He is a member of San
Joaquin County Medical Society.
Dr. J. C. McCall was married February 14,
1888, in Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Jeanett Wasson, a native of that city, born in
March, 1860, a daughter of the late attorney John and Mary (Armstrong) Wasson,
both natives of Ohio. The mother is still living, and is a resident of this
county since June, 1888.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 635-636. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Biographies
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Genealogy Databases