San Francisco County
Biographies
ROBERT
E. BUNKER, M. D.
Robert E.
Bunker, M. D., whose office is at No. 46 O’Farrell street, San Francisco, has
been a resident of California since 1886, and has been engaged in the practice
of medicine since 1889. He was born in
Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1864, and is of English and Scandinavian descent,
his father being
a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of Norway. His father’s family have been residents of New England for a
number of generations.
Robert received
his early education in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He commenced the study of medicine in 1885,
under the preceptorship of J. R. Freeman, of Minneapolis, with whom he studied
one year, and at the same time entered the Minnesota Hospital College, where he
took the course of 1885-’86. On coming
to California Dr. Bunker entered the medical department of the University of
California, where he graduated in 1889, receiving his degree as Doctor of
Medicine. He is now the Assistant Police
Surgeon of San Francisco, a position he has held since January, 1890. He is also resident physician of the Crocker
Old People’s Home.
Transcribed by Donna
L. Becker
Source: "The Bay
of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 74-75, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna
L. Becker.
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