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LEONIDA OLIVIERI, M.D.
Born in the ancient city of Genoa, Italy, December 14, 1866, Dr. Leonida Olivieri is a descendant of an eminent and noble Italian family. Both his father and his grandfather were physicians, and famous men of their time. He was graduated from the University of Physicians and Surgeons in Genoa, Italy, after which he took a post-graduate course at the Medical College of Paris. About thirty years ago he sailed for America, and for a while he located in Chicago, and in that city, in 1893, he was attached to the medical department of the World’s Fair Exposition, where the instrument of his invention for the safe and rapid operation in tracheotomy received the first prize.
A few years later Dr. Olivieri came out to California for his health; and having been favorably impressed with the Golden State from the start, he has been here ever since, always busy with the successful practice of his profession. His exceptional scientific training and equipment, and his linguistic attainments, and the other fruits of his profound study and wide travel have contributed to enable him to render the greatest service to important circles in Stockton and the rest of San Joaquin County. During all these years he also contributed to the beauty of Stockton by erecting fine buildings and improving the country around by converting several large pieces of almost sterile land into valuable and highly productive ranches, and no greater evidence could be desired of his faith in the future of this region, to which he has always been so loyal. Cultured and philanthropic by nature, he has won the esteem and the sincere affection of his numerous friends here and elsewhere. In honor of distinguished services rendered by Dr. Olivieri to his native land, he was honored by King Humbert, who bestowed upon him the rank of Chevalier officer with the Cross of the Crown of Italy.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1284. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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