DAWSON, WILLIAM J. G., M. D.

DAWSON, WILLIAM J. G., M. D. - Was born in New Bandon, Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada, January 12,1846. His mother dying when he was but fourteen months old, he was taken by his grandparents to New Castle, Northumberland County, and there brought up and educated. In the fall of 1865, he went to New York City, and attended the Medical Department of the University, graduating from that institution in March, 1867. He was then appointed Assistant Physician in the New York City Lunatic Asylum, a position he held for over one year. In the spring of 1868 he was admitted, by competitive examination, one of the House Staff of the Charity Hospital, New York, acting as Assistant Physician for six months, and then entering as one of the House Physicians and Surgeons in October, 1868, which position he held for one year. In October, 1869, he returned home to New Castle, New Brunswick, and remained there practicing medicine until the fall of 1876, when he started west, sojourning a few weeks in Colorado, and then continued west to California, locating in St. Helena January 12,1877, where he has since been practicing his profession. His office and residence are next to the Catholic Church on Oak avenue.

History of Napa and Lake Counties,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, June 2007 Page 450

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