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WARREN T. McNEIL, M. D.
A highly progressive physician and
surgeon, who has won for himself a high place among the medical fraternity, not
only in San Joaquin County, but in northern California as well, is Dr. Warren
T. McNeil, who was born near Tracy on March 9, 1883. His father, John Alexander McNeil, is a
native of Nova Scotia, and his mother, in maidenhood Miss Ellen Lynn, was born
at Santa Clara. Warren McNeil attended
the grammar school at Tracy, and then went for a year to the San Jose high
school, and finally was graduated from the Santa Clara high school, with the
class of 1900. He then entered Stanford
University in the fall of 1903, and four years later was graduated with the A.
B. degree, after which he commenced his studies at the Cooper Medical College,
in the fall of 1908, and four years later he received his M. D. degree from
that leading institution. He served for
a year as interne at the Lane Hospital at San Francisco, and for another year
was interne at Mount Zion Hospital, in San Francisco.
In May, 1914, he entered the employ
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company as ship doctor on their trans-Pacific
liner Nile, on the twelfth trip across the Pacific; but on arriving in Hong
Kong he became ship surgeon on a British transport plying between China and
England. He was discharged in England
with credit by the British Admiralty in April, 1915, returning home via New
York, thereby completing a trip around the world, adding greatly to his practical
experience.
In September, 1915, he arrived in
Stockton, and with Dr. S. F. Priestley as a partner he practiced medicine until
September, 1916, when he entered upon practice for himself. He opened offices in the Commercial and Savings
Bank Building, and from the beginning did well.
He was commissioned first lieutenant in the medical corps in April,
1918, and began his active service in August, 1918, and was in training camps
Kearny, Shelby and Upton; he served for seven months overseas, sailing in November,
1918, with Evacuation Hospital No. 33, on the steamer Sierra. He returned to the United States on the
steamship George Washington in July, 1919, in charge of fifty nurses, who had
served in the War; and he was discharged at the Presidio, at San Francisco, on
August 17, 1919. On returning to
Stockton he resumed the practice of medicine, and he is now a member of the
medical staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital at Stockton, and also of the State and
County Medical societies. He belongs to
the Anteros Club of Stockton, and is president of the Stanford Alumni
Association of the same city. He is a
member of Delta Lodge No. 471, F. & A. M.; Stockton Chapter No. 28, R. A.
M., Stockton Council No. 10, R. & S. M., and Golden Poppy Chapter No. 335,
O. E. S. He is also a member of the Karl
Ross Post, American Legion, No. 16, and of Luneta
Post No. 52, Veterans of Foreign Wars; is active in the Y. M. C. A. at
Stockton, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tracy.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1243-1244. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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