San Francisco County

Biographies

LAURA A. S. BALLARD, M. D.

Laura A. S. Ballard, M.D., whose office is at No. 205 Powell street, has been since 1875 a resident of California, and has practiced medicine during that time, and for the past twelve years in her present location.  She was born in Sheffield, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1834, and received her early education in the Ringsville Academy in the adjoining town, and later at the seminary of Beloit, Wisconsin.  She commenced the study of medicine in 1865, under the preceptorship of her brother, Dr. L. Stow, a graduate of Nashville (Tennessee) Medical College.  She engaged in the application of medical electricity until 1873, when she went to Chicago and entered the Hahnemann Medical College of that city, graduating there in 1875, after a full course of study and lectures, and receiving her degree of Doctor of Medicine.

     Dr. Ballard came to California in that year, where she has been continuously engaged in practice.  She is one of the consulting physicians of the Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary; a member of the State Homeopathic Medical Society; a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy.  Her son, Dr. J. Stow Ballard, a graduate of the University of California, has lately taken his degree from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, after a three years' course, and has entered into practice in partnership with his mother.  He is also attending physician in the Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary.  Dr. Ballard has built up a very satisfactory practice.

 

Transcribed 4-18-05  Marilyn R. Pankey