Tuolumne
County
Biographies
DANIEL E. STRATTON
Daniel Edgar Stratton, who is
engaged in the practice of medicine at Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County, as a
representative of the regular profession and as physician and surgeon of the
Eagle, Shawmut and Jacksonville mines, was born at McGregor, Iowa, on the 4th
of December, 1863. He is of English and
Holland lineage. His paternal ancestors
were early settlers of Vermont, and on the maternal side were pioneers of New
York. Joseph Stratton, the grandfather
of our subject, was a soldier in the colonial army and valiantly fought for the
independence of the nation. Charles
Stratton, the Doctor’s father, was born in Schoharie County, New York, and was
married to Miss Hannah Van Auken, also a native of
the Empire state. Soon after their
marriage they removed to Wisconsin, casting in their lot with its pioneer
settlers, and subsequently became pioneers of Iowa. Both are still residents of the Hawkeye
state, the father having attained the seventy-ninth year of his age, while his
wife is ten years his junior. They are
members and earnest workers of the United Brethren Church and are loved by all
who know them. The father was a strong
Union man at the time of the Civil War and in answer to President Lincoln’s
first call for volunteers to crush out the rebellion in its incipiency he
enlisted, serving a three months’ term.
The war had not then ended and he re-enlisted, taking part in many of
the hotly contested engagements which were necessary for the preservation of
the Union. While in the army he
contracted scurvy that has caused him great suffering and almost terminated his
life. Being thus incapacitated for work
much of the time, the government granted him a pension
of seventeen dollars a month. His
brothers and his wife’s brothers were also valiant Union soldiers, and the
military record of the family is one of which its representatives have every
reason to be proud.
The Doctor is one of ten children,
but is the only representative of the family in California. His literary education was completed in the
State University of Iowa and he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
that institution with the class of 1886.
He afterward served for one term in the State Hospital and thence came
direct to Chinese Camp, California, where he has since built up a very
satisfactory practice that brings to him a good income. He also has a beautiful residence on the hill
overlooking the town.
In 1889 occurred the marriage of Dr.
Stratton and Miss Helen Cutting, a native daughter of Chinese Camp. Her father, C. B. Cutting, came to this state
at an early period in its development and is now a resident of Jamestown, Tuolumne
County. Dr. and Mrs. Stratton have one
daughter, Viola. Socially he is
connected with the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Knights of Pythias fraternity. He is
devoted to his profession, his interest arising from his broad humanitarian
principles and his love of scientific research.
His skill and ability are of a high order and he has a strict regard for
the ethics of the professional code. As
a man and citizen he is widely and favorably known and in this volume he well
deserves honorable mention.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 614-615. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.