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RAYMOND T. McGURK, M. D.
Well and favorably known as a
physician and surgeon of distinction, Dr. Raymond T. McGurk was born in
Stockton, October 21, 1883, a son of Charles H. and Elizabeth (Thornton)
McGurk, the former a native of San Andreas, Calaveras County, and the latter of
Sacramento, and both are still living in Stockton. Charles H. McGurk came to Stockton as a young
man and entered the employ of the Sperry Flour Company, but in 1887 he entered
the butcher business in Stockton, and with the exception of one term as chief
of police, has been in that business ever since; at present he is the manager
of the Maisel Meat Company. Elizabeth
(Thornton) McGurk was reared in Calaveras County and taught in the public
schools there for several years; of late years she has been active in the
affairs of the Calaveras Society of Stockton, whose members are made up of
former residents of that county and she is a past president of the society. Mr. and Mrs. McGurk had two children: Mrs. Joseph M. Kidd and Raymond T.
Raymond T. McGurk received his
education in St. Joseph’s private school and St. Mary’s school in Stockton and
was later graduated from the Stockton high school, class of ’05, the first
class to graduate from the new high school on Vine Street. Desiring to become a physician he entered
Cooper Medical College and was graduated with the class of ’09, with the degree
of M. D., and licensed to practice by the State Board of Examiners that same
year. He became an interne at the San
Joaquin County Hospital and in 1910 located in Stockton and began to build up a
private practice. He served as city
health officer during 1911 and 1912, and was for five years a member of the
staff of the Stockton Emergency Hospital under Chief Surgeon Dr. Ira B. Ladd
and later under Dr. L. R. Johnson. In
1918 Dr. McGurk took a post-graduate course in surgery at Harvard University
and visited many of the eastern clinics.
He has been prominent in the San Joaquin County Medical Society, serving
as secretary and later as its president and is now a member of the board of
directors. Like most successful
professional men, Dr. McGurk has a hobby, and that is the raising of registered
Scotch Shorthorn beef cattle. With his
father, Charles H. McGurk, he owns and operates a ranch of 300 acres at
Bellota, San Joaquin County, on which he has a herd of registered Scotch
Shorthorn cattle of which he is justly proud.
The marriage of Dr. McGurk united
him with Miss Mamie B. Robinson, a native of San Joaquin County, a daughter of
I. N. Robinson, a retired farmer of Stockton.
Dr. and Mrs. McGurk are the parents of three children: Marjorie Elizabeth; Raymond Thornton, Jr.,
and Norman Edward. Fraternally Dr.
McGurk is a member of the Knights of Columbus and Young Men’s Institute.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1243. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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