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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.


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