| 词条 | Benjamin Shurtleff |
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Born in Carver, Massachusetts to Charles Shurtleff and Hannah Shaw, Shurtleff and was educated in the public schools until the age of fifteen, and then at Pierce Academy, where he began teaching at age nineteen.[2][3] He studied medicine with his brother, Dr. G.A. Shurtleff, and with Dr. Elisha Huntington, of Lowell, Massachusetts,[3] and attended Fremont Medical School of Boston, and was taught by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.[3] Shurtleff graduated from the medical department of Harvard University in 1848.[2][3] In 1849 he traveled to California by sea, passing through the Strait of Magellan.[2] He settled in Shasta County, where in addition to practicing medicine, he engaged in mining and owned a drug store.[2] He was elected as the first treasurer of Shasta County, and in 1860 was elected as a state senator from that county.[1][2] In 1874, he moved to Napa, California,[2] where he served as director of the Napa State Hospital for nineteen years,[2] and served for many years as mayor of Napa.[1][2] He was a member of the California constitutional convention of 1879.[1][2] He was a member of the Republican Party, and a Mason.[2] He married Anna M. B. (Griffith) Shurtleff, born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, on February 21, 1853,[2] while on a return visit to New England.[3] They had three sons, Benjamin E., Charles A., and George C.;[2] the middle son, Charles A. Shurtleff, served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. He died in Napa, at the age of 90.[1][2][3] References1. ^1 2 3 4 In Memoriam, Honorable Charles Allerton Shurtleff, Cal. Reports 2d Vol. 18 (1941), p. 891-898. {{DEFAULTSORT:Shurtleff, Benjamin}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Lewis Francis Byington, History of San Francisco 3 Vols (S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1931), Vol. 2, p. 440-442, in Jeanne Sturgis Taylor, San Francisco County Biographies, Charles A. Shurtleff (2007). 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Christie Trapp, [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37922867 Find A Grave page on Benjamin Shurtleff] (2009). 8 : 1821 births|1911 deaths|People from Carver, Massachusetts|Harvard Medical School alumni|California pioneers|San Francisco Bay Area politicians|People from the San Francisco Bay Area|Physicians from California |
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