Santa Clara County
Biographies
OLIVER P. ASKAM, M. D.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, SANTA CLARA COUNTY-1888
One of the prominent young men of Mountain
View, and a rising member of the medical profession, is Doctor Askam, the
subject of this sketch. He is a native of Ohio, where his parents reside. His
father, George Askam, has been a very active man in former years, and was an
extensive dealer in stock, but now is living a more retired life. There are six
children in the family, four sons and two daughters, of whom two sons are now
practicing physicians of this State. O. P. Askam was raised on his father's
farm, and received his literary education at the First Street Normal High
School, Louisville Kentucky. When he was eighteen years of age he entered upon
the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of his brother, Doctor H. F.
Askam. When he was nineteen years old, he entered the Kentucky School of
Medicine at Louisville, and graduated at that institution on the twenty-sixth
day of June, 1884, after having passed a rigid examination conducted by members
of the Faculty. Soon afterward he commenced the practice of his profession, and
in course of time came to Mountain View, where he opened an office and has been
one of the most successful physicians who has practiced in this locality.
The Doctor is a pleasant conversationalist, is congenial with his friends, and a
citizen of high standing in the community. Although a young man, he is rapidly
coming to the front as a physician. He has acquired a large and extensive
practice, and is destined at no distant day to occupy a prominent position in
the medical profession.
Doctor Askam is a member of the Santa Clara Medical Society, is a Knight
Templar, belonging to the Chapter and Commandery of San Jose, and to the Blue
Lodge of Mountain View. He is also a member of the Eastern Star Lodge, a social
order of Masonic nature, at San Jose, and of the A. O. U. W. of Mountain View.
{transcribers note---Dr. Askam married Elsie Rengstorff- see Ringstorff bio}
SOURCE: Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara
County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1888.- Page 516-517 transcribed by Roena Wilson