San Francisco County
Biographies
JEROME
A. ANDERSON, M. D.
Jerome A.
Anderson, M. D., whose office is in the Odd Fellows building, San Francisco,
has been a resident of California since 1872, and engaged in the practice of
medicine since 1873. He was born in
Randolph county, Indiana, in 1847, and his early education was received in the
public schools of Kansas, to which State his parents had moved during his early
childhood. He later attended a private
seminary at Neosho Falls, Kansas. He
commenced the study of medicine in 1868, under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W.
Driscoll, of Neosho Falls, with whom he studied three years. In 1871 he entered the Medical College of
Ohio, at Cincinnati, where he remained one year, and in 1872 entered the
medical department of the University of California, graduating in 1873, in the
first class graduating from that institution, and receiving the degree of
Doctor of medicine. He at once entered
in the practice of his profession in San Francisco, where he has since been
continuously engaged. The Doctor is a
member of the State Medical Society of California, of the County Medical
Society of San Francisco, Fellow of the San Francisco Obstetrical and
Gynecological Society, ex-President of the Alumni Association of the Medical
Department of the University of California, President of the Golden Gate Branch
of the Theosophical Society, and editor of a literary monthly, the New
Californian.
Dr. Anderson’s
family have been residents of America for generations, and are probably of
Scotch descent. Five generations in a
direct line have been school teachers, including the Doctor, he having paid his
expenses through the university by teaching school. His father, W. G. Anderson, came from North Carolina with his
parents when a child. He was also a
pioneer settler of Kansas. The parents
both died in Kansas since the Doctor’s arrival in California.
Transcribed by Donna
L. Becker
Source: "The Bay
of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 78-79, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna
L. Becker.