Tehama County

Biographies

 

DR. NAT T. COULSON

Dr. Nat T. Coulson.---- There is no more useful reading than a history of the lives of those men who, against all disadvantages and vicissitudes, have forced their way from the lowest round in the ladder of life to the plane whereon ambition may be reasonably content with the success achieved. The lesson to be learned is not the accumulation of wealth alone, but the value of those sterling qualities of integrity and manhood which command universal respect. These lives are examples to the young men of America, who by circumstances are placed midway in the ladder of life, by being educated regardless of cost by fond and ambitious parents.

Dr. Coulson, whose office is at No. 1206 Market street, corner Golden Gate avenue, opposite Sixth street, in the Hotel Marquette, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1875, and has been engaged in dental practice since 1885. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England, in 1853, and is descended from a very prominent family in that country, members of which still occupy positions of wealth and trust in both church and State. Dr. Coulson is eminently a self-made man. Left to his own resources at a very early age, he has, amid the many changes which he has found it advisable to make in life before selecting the profession for which he found himself especially adapted up to the time of his graduation at the University of California, utilized the earnings of a lifetime to his gradual education. Coming as a boy from a farm, and later passing several years at sea, Dr. Coulson worked his way gradually upward, continually adding to his knowledge and acquirements until he took charge of the books of a stock-broker's firm in San Francisco, in connection with which, after office hours, he became identified with journalism on several of the daily papers. Feeling that he wanted a permanent direction for his talents, and possessing a mechanical as well as a studious turn of mind, he commenced the practice of dentistry, under the preceptorship of Dr. B Beers, one of the well-known dentists of San Francisco. In 1884 he entered the dental department of the University of California, where he graduated after a full two-year course, receiving his degree as Doctor of Dental Surgery. After graduation Dr. Coulson at once entered in to the practice of his profession, in which he has been pre-eminently successful and has built up a large clientage.

Dr. Coulson is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternity; is also a member of the Union League Club, and late Treasurer of the Liberty Club. He is a Good Templar, and is identified with several other fraternal organizations.