EDWARD G. FRISBIE, M.D., whose
office is at No. 229 Geary street, San Francisco, is a native Californian,
and a younger member of a family well-known in California as pioneers in
the military as well as the medical history of the State. His uncle, General
John B. Frisbie, who came to California in 1846 as an officer of Stevenson’s
regiment, and who with his father-in-law, General Vallejo and his brother,
Dr. Levi C. Frisbie, were founders of the city of Vallejo, are among the
most prominent and honored names in the history of California. Dr. Edward
G. Frisbie is moving in the same direction, and has already made a reputation
alike honorable to his own efforts and the name he bears.
His parents were Edward and
Phoebe (Klink) Frisbie, natives of New York State, who came to this State
in the early days of its history. His father engaged in farming near Vallejo
until 1877, and is now and has been for some years president of the Bank
of Northern California at Redding, Shasta county, where he originally purchased
the Redding grant of 20,000 acres, which he has since sold in smaller tracts,
Dr. E. G. Frisbie and his brothers having purchased the last 3,000 acres
of the grant. Edward received his early education in the public schools
at Vallejo, graduating at the high school of that city in 1877. He then
spent two years farming on his father’s ranch in Shasta. Entering the State
University at Berkeley he spent one year, and then decided to enter upon
medical studies. He then matriculated at the Medical College of the Pacific,
now the Cooper Medical College, where after a three year’s course he graduated
in 1882. He remained one year at the city and county hospital as interne
or house physician, gaining an experience not to be had in private practice.
Dr. Frisbie then engaged in private practice, which he has continued in
San Francisco since that time. For two years he was assistant physician
at the clinic of the Cooper Medical College. He is a member of the State
Medical Society, and of the County Medical Society of San Francisco.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 500,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
Transcribed by Elaine Sturdevant
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