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CALAVERAS COUNTY DOCTORS and HOSPITALS

Researched by Judith Marvin, Calaveras County Archives (2019)

DOCTORS

 

Albasio, Dante Louis, 1911-1997  (practiced Angels Camp for 50 years)

Angelo, Oliver Perry 1816-1853 [Post 1854 Amador Co.], Mexican War Surgeon, Co. A, 3rd Missouri Mounted Infantry.

Alexander, G. (Angels Camp 1890s)

Austin,             (San Andreas, 1857 advertisement)

Baker, John Waterman Harris, 1821-1905 Moke Hill; Assistant Surgeon (Camp McClellan, Davenport, Iowa) Civil War (Union)

Baker, J.S. C. (Angels Camp 1850s)

Blaisdell, Frank, 1862-1946 (Cooper Medical College, to Moke Hill 1889, 1900 to SF, partner with Tom Peters in Drug Store in Moke Hill 1893)

Boon, J.T. (to Angels Camp 1852-1857+)

Bratton, XXX (Sheep Ranch 1880)

Brotherton, F.W. (San Andreas, 1857 advertisement)

Buckley, William L. (Cooper Medical College 1898, Milton, coroner 1898)

Brusie, Asst. Surgeon, Field and Staff, 3rd Indiana Cavalry (aka 45th Indiana Infantry), Civil War (Union)

Coffin, Nelson Gardner, 1820-1910  Asst. Surgeon, Staff, 107th Illinois Infantry,  Civil War (Unon)

Clark, Fred P. (Sheep Ranch 1889, Angels Camp 1890s)

Collins, Asa Weston (West Point)

Cooper, George Proctor 1880-1944 (b. England, Angels Camp, Utica Mine doctor, 1939)

Cozine, M.L. (Moke Hill 1851-1859)

Cramer, F., (b. Germany, Vallecito in 1855)

Dakan, Perry  1820-1875  Hospital Steward/ Regimental Surgeon, Co. H, 9th Texas Infantry, Civil War (Confederate)

Dorroh, John, 1861-1911 (b. KY, Physician and Surgeon, Main Street, Angels Camp 1893; Utica Mine Hospital, City Drugstore)

Dzuber, Ione (Angels Camp 1970s)

Edwards, J.D. (Angels Camp 1850s)

Fischer, George (Moke Hill 1855, then West Point)

Freeman, Charles (Angels Camp 1890s)

Freund, Henry S, ukn – 1858  Hospital steward (he was called a doctor), Mexican War, 1st New York volunteers (Stevenson’s Regiment)

Gaillard,   1823-1896    Asst. Surgeon, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Civil War (Confederate)

Gooding, XXX (Sheep Ranch 1880)

Goodman, P.S. (West Point 1893)

Goodwin, Peterson, ca. 1820-1859, killed by Jeff Gatewood in duel at Moonlight Flat

Griswold, J.W. (Ohio, Vallecito in 1855)

Gwin, William McKendree (Gwin Mine and S.F.), 1805-1885

Harris, Elias Braman, 1824-1900 Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Volunteers (Emory Hospital, Washington, D.C.) Civil War (Union)

Harry, Charles Reese (1892-1897, Union Copper Mine, Copperopolis)

Hayson, Henry (Angels Camp 1939)

Hepburn, James (Moke Hill)

Hill, E.W. (San Andreas 1939)

Hodges, Thomas J. (aka Tom Bell)

Hoerchner, Adolphus H. ca. 1822-1870 (b. Savoy, France (Eisenach, Saxony), to Pleasant Springs in 1850 with D.L. Angier and Charles Grunsky, practiced Moke Hill and Pleasant Springs, operated County Hospital 1858-1867 at Pleasant Springs, Miner’s Drug Store in Moke Hill in 1861; served in Mexican-American War; also worked French Hospital, County Coroner 1865-1870)

Holder, William (Moke Hill 1893))

Holland, Judson Arthur, 1858- 1934 (b. San Andreas, Cooper Medical School 1894, to San Andreas, County Physician with office on St. Charles Street, opposite Union Church in 1898)

Isabel, I.C. (Angels Camp 1850s)

Johnson, Recelus  1822-1923  Civil War (Union)

Johnston, Llewellyn  (Angels Camp 1890s)

Jones, William, 1822-1891 (b. County Longford, Ireland; graduated Apothecaries Hall, Dublin; NY in 1843; California 1849; 1851 Angels Camp; Murphys 1853-1869; then to SF)

Kelly, William A., 1812-1899 (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, to Angels Camp 1849 to mine, 1851 practiced medicine; practiced Copperopolis 1867; Sheep Ranch 1880s; Angels Camp by 1893 as Kelly & Pache, Main St.)

Lamb, Philip  (Angels Camp 1939)

Lampson, Royal Mills, 1840-1885 (practiced Angels Camp, died Milton)

Lee, Andrew  1827-1872  Civil War (Union)

Lincoln (Murphys)

Locke, Jewett

Lunt, Edwin Lutherford  1824-1903  Mexican-American War

Maddock, Louis, XXX-1936 (Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia)

Marcell, Milon (operated “French” Hospital in San Andreas 1869-1876)

March, William Bright, XXX-1936 (to Wallace 1883, practiced in Burson 1893, Jenny Lind, and Campo Seco)

March, Irwin Beede (son of William, superintendent of County Hospital 1913, U.S.Army 1914

Martin, Edward (San Andreas 1939)

Martin, Ruth (San Andreas 1939)

McClelland, Dr. George Dunn (graduate of University of Kentucky Medical College, had first drugstore in Valley Springs 1884-1889)

McCoy, William Woodruff , 1829-1913 (Copperopolis, served in Confederate Army)

McLaughlin, J.H.

McLean,

McMillan, Robert

Mercer, Judson Arthur

Moncel, (operated French Hospital at Campo Seco)

Murphy, William (San Andreas)

Newland, R.E.

Noetling, Paul R., 1901-1981 (b. NY, practiced Angels Camp)

Nottage, George Edward  1844-1921  Civil War (Union)

Pache, George R., 1865-1939 (practiced 30 years in Angels Camp, County Coroner and Public Administrator 1880s-1890s, 1893 Angels Hotel residence)

Pickering, John

Pool, Josiah J.  1830-1902

Raines, R. (Angels Camp 1890s)

Ringo,  (San Andreas, 1857 advertisement)

Roberts, Louis L.  1828-1905.  Surgeon, U.S. Army, Mexican War.

Robertson, Elisha Bryant, 1826-1899 (UOP Medical School; served in Mexican-American War)

Rush,  W.E.

Russell, W.A. (Tennessee, Vallecito 1855)

Sargent

Severance, Harry (Angels Camp 1890s)

Shackelford, 1829-1898 Civil War (Union)

Shipley, Charles (Royal Mine 1903, Salt Spring Valley)

Simms, John Richard, 1821-1903  Asst. Surgeon, Staff, CSA.  Civil War (Confederate) Milton 1893

Simmons, M.C. (County Physician 1893)

Smart, Elliott

Smith, Andrew M.C. 1828-1905

Smith, Milton Benjamin, 1913-2001 (b. Idaho, practiced Murphys)

Smyser, Henry Lanius  1825-1900  Doctor, U.S. Army (Hospital, York, Pennsylvania) Civil War (Union)

Soher, Louis 1810-XXX (b. Vienna, Austria, to Moke Hill in 1849, ran Big Bar Ferry 1850s, Moke Hill Drugstore 1855, to SF in 1868)

Somerset, Richard Den (1848-49 in Sullivan’s Diggings near Angels Camp, then to SF)

Spaulding, Mabel Garrard (Angels Camp 1890s)

Spaulding, Otis (Angels Camp 1890s)

Stuckey, Simon Fillmore 1856-1924 (Cooper Medical College, practiced Moke Hill)

Styskel, Alan (Murphys, BH Sanitarium, then private practice)

Sylvester, Ingenious Peasley, 1817- XXX (b. Mass; m. 1837 Susan Jane Curtin, Boston; dau. Eliza, b. 1842; practiced Copperopolis in 1867, miner in Angels Camp in 1893)

Teale, Stephen Peter, 1916-1997 (b. SF, lived Railroad Flat)

Toland, Hugh, to Calaveras 1852, then SF

Tolman, George Bowers  1826-1912.  Civil War (Union) Asst. Surgeon 6th California Infantry; Mexican War

Wall, Florence, 1868-1936 (graduate of California Medical College, SF; Valley Springs 1893-1899)

Weirich, Elmer Williams, 1866-1938 (Copperopolis 1893, Angels Camp)

West, Robie Wendell (Angels Camp 1890s)

Wierzbicki Felix Paul,  1815-1960  Hospital Steward (he was called a doctor), Mexican War, U.S.S. Loo Choo, and Co. H, 1st NY Volunteers (Stevenson’s Regiment)

Wilson (Angels Camp)

Wilson, George Washington  1825-1888 Civil War (Union)

 

DENTISTS

 

Angier, John N. 1822-XXX (b. VT, Pleasant Springs 1850; Moke Hill 1859; San Andreas, Metropolitan Hotel June 1860; Angels Camp July 1860;  returned East 1864)

Beals, Charles R. (1880s Railroad Flat; San Andreas, Metropolitan Hotel 1893)

Butterfield, Charles Lincoln, 1860-1934 (San Andreas 1882, Sheep Ranch 1884, Mt. Ranch 1920, San Andreas 1930)

Cooper, George William, 1910-1983 (Angels Camp 1939)

Porter, Dr. (Surgeon Dentist in Angels Camp in 1898). 

Powell, John D. (Angels Camp 1893)

Riley, Chester, 1890-1969 (Angels Camp)

Smith, Charles D., 1858-1944 (b. Angels Camp, practiced Angels Camp 1893, 1915, 1929)

 

DRUGGISTS  (drugs in early days often sold in stores)

 

Barden, Harry (Angels Camp)

Dorroh, John and Kate Moran Dorroh (City Drug Store, Angels Camp, early 1900s)

Edwards, Dr.  (Edwards Drugstore, Angels Camp, 1858)

Express Drug Store (Wood’s Hall, Angels Camp, 1930s)

Fisk, Frank (groceries, notions and drugs, Murphys 1893)

Gardella, Joseph L. (Country Drugs in San Andreas, b. Oakland 1925)

Goodloe & Barden (Angels Camp)

Jones (Dr. William) Apothecary (Murphys, 1860s)

Hockman, Richard (Angels Camp, 1860s)

Kelly’s Drug Store (San Andreas 1939)

Lion, L. (Angels Camp 1858, also sells cigars, tobacco, etc.)

Mokelumne Drug Store (1855, Dr. L. Soher)

Peters (Tom) Drug Store (Moke Hill, 1893, 1890s)

Rasmussen, Robert (Angels Camp 1890s)

Rexall Drugs (Bazinett Hotel 1937)

Schaeffle, Simon (Druggist, Murphys, 1893)

Scribners (Angels Camp 1860s)

Trewartha, Samuel and William (Angels Camp, 1890s)

 

HOSPITALS

 

Angels Camp

Two maternity hospitals (1850s and 1860s)

Pest House (Slab Ranch on Hwy. 4)

Utica Mine Hospital, 1894-1920 (Dr. Dorroh’s on South Main Street, 12 beds)

Stork Road Maternity Hospital on Democrat Hill (Mary Adeline [Addie] Lyons Minard, 1860-1954, b. Mariposa; Maternity House Nurse 1920, 1930; Maternity Home operator 1910s-1931)

 

Campo Seco

French Hospital, 1850s -1860s, Dr. Moncel

 

Mokelumne Hill

French Mutual Benefit Hospital, 1851-1854, for French, Belgians, and Canadians; Mr. de la Riviere director, in tent, 10 beds, stove, and nurse; 1860 a home was used as hospital by French Mutual Relief Society)

French Benevolent Society Hospital (early 1870s – ca. 1890) constructed on Old Road to Stockton (west of MH Campo-Seco Turnpike); open to all subscribers

Chilean Hospital

Milano Society Italian hospital, at intersection of West Main Street and Mokelumne Hill Campo Seco Turnpike on 1872 Township Map (Block 6, lot 20)

Loo San Chinese Doctor Shop

Chinese Hospital in 1881 Assessments  (Block 20, Lot 2)

 

Murphys

Bret Harte Sanitarium, 1927-early 1960s, then alcohol rehab, burned 2002

 

Pleasant Springs

County Hospital, 1858-1867, operated by Dr. A.H. Hoerchner; County accepted responsibility for care of indigent sick and elderly)

 

San Andreas

Gold Hill House, 1869-1871, two-story Gold Hill Roadhouse of Patrick McAllen, burned 1871, operated by Dr. E.B. Robertson)

“French” Hospital, late 1869-1876, operated by Dr. Milon Marcell, 37 Gold Strike Road

New Gold Hill House, 1871-1890, across road, 40 patients in 1889

County Hospital, 1890-1951, Government Center, land purchased 1889

Calaveras Cement Plant Hospital, 1920s, operated by Dr. Hill

Mark Twain Hospital, 1951-1997, affiliated with St. Josephs in 1990

Mark Twain-St. Joseph’s Hospital, 1897

 

Vallecito

Maternity Hospital, 1860

 

REFERENCES

 

Buckbee, Edna Bryan

1932    Pioneer Days of Angels Camp. Calaveras Californian, Angels Camp.

 

Calaveras, County of

Assessments

Deed Books

Great Register of Voters:  1866 (survey 1880s, 1890s, 1900s)

 

Calaveras County Directory

1893-1896

 

Costello, Julia G.

1983    Melones, A Story of a Stanislaus River Town.  U.S.  Department of the Interior, Sacramento.  Republished 1936 by the Calaveras Heritage Council.

 

Heckendorn

1856    Miner’s and Businessmen’s Directory

 

Las Calaveras

var.

 

Limbaugh, Ronald, and Willard P. Fuller, Jr.

2004    Calaveras Gold.  University of Nevada Press, Reno.

 

Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History

Military Records

 

Telephone Book

1939

 

Theodoratus, Dorothea J, and Marion Parsons

1980    Miwok Ethnohistory.  Completed as a unit under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Calaveras County Museum and Archives, San Andreas.

 

U.S. Federal Census

var.

 

Zumwalt, Eve Starcevich

1990    The Romance of Mokelumne Hill, A Pageant of History.  Pioneer Publishing Co., Fresno.