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Register of the Henry Gibbons Papers, 1833-1880
MSS 73-5
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Title: Henry Gibbons Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1833-1880
Collection number: MSS 73-5
Creator: Gibbons, Henry, 1808-1884
Extent: 1 box (4 folders)
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library.
Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Henry Gibbons Papers, MSS 73-5,
Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Gibbons was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an English emigre family who had followed William Penn to Pennsylvania. He
received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1829, and practiced with his father, William Gibbons, in Wilmington
until 1844. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Medicine from that date until he went to San Francisco in 1850.
He was a founding member of the California State Medical Society, and served as its president in 1857 and 1871. Gibbons was
a member of the faculty of the Cooper Medical College, and member of the California State Board of Health. He died in Wilmington,
Delaware, November 5, 1884.
Includes transcriptions of original correspondence; pamphlets. Gift of Dr. Morton Gibbons, January 13, 1931.