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GABRIEL J. VISCHI, M. D.
A worthy representative of the
medical profession in California, Dr. Gabriel J. Vischi, the rising young
physician and surgeon, of 38 South Sutter Street, Stockton, is also a cultured linguist,
speaking English, Spanish and Italian fluently.
He was born in San Francisco on June 19, 1892, the son of Joseph and
Valentine (Valente) Vischi, the former a native of Italy, and the latter a
Californian. His father came out to the
Golden State in 1876, a jeweler by trade, and he opened the first Italian
jewelry store in San Francisco, in which city Mrs. Vischi was born. He and his estimable wife make their home
with Dr. Vischi. Her father was Joseph Valente, and he was an
early settler in the Bay City. He was a
mining engineer, operated in Indian Gulch, in Calaveras County, and came to be
identified with the pioneer doings in a section of California made immortal by
both Mark Twain and Bret Harte.
Gabriel Vischi attended the grammar
schools of San Francisco and then was graduated from the Polytechnic high
school of that city, after which he entered the University of California, which
conferred upon him in 1912 the Ph. C. degree.
Four years later he was graduated, after a thorough course in medicine,
from the San Francisco College of Physicians and Surgeons, when he received the
M. D. degree; and then, for a year, he was an interne at the San Francisco
County Hospital. When the United States
shared the responsibilities of the World War, he entered the service in
October, 1917, as Orthopedic Surgeon, and was commissioned first lieutenant of
the Medical Corps. He was stationed at
the base hospital at Camp Lewis, and later at Camp Kearney, and then he was
detached and sent to the hospital at Fort McKinley, five miles from Manila, in
the Philippine Islands, where he remained from July to September, 1918. He was then ordered to Siberia with Field
Hospital No. 4 Company, and the Ambulance Company No. 4, and in far-off Siberia
he saw active service from September, 1918, to June 4, 1919, advancing rapidly
and becoming one of the leading surgeons.
Had not the armistice been signed when it was, he would have been duly commissioned
a major. Arriving back in San Francisco
on July 17, 1919, he was honorably discharged on August 4.
Dr. Vischi then located at Stockton,
greatly enriched through his experience as a physician and surgeon of
responsibility in the Army; and he has ever since been active in the practice
of his profession, enjoying the entire confidence, as well as the highest
esteem, of a wide circle of friends. He
is a member of the American Medical Association as well as the state and county
medical societies. He belongs to the
Karl Ross Post of the American Legion, and to the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Association; and he is also a member of the Stockton Red Men, the Eagles, the
Druids, and the Yeomen. Miss Ethel
Vischi, his older sister, is an artist of exceptional natural talent and enjoys
the distinction of having studied at the Johns Hopkins Art Institute and the
Best Art School. She excels in china
painting, illustrating, photographic work, modeling, and in both oil and
water-color painting. Miss Ada Vischi,
his younger sister, also makes her home with Dr. Vischi and is secretary for
George F. McNoble, attorney-at-law.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1187. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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