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1872-1908
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Title: Cooper Medical College Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1872-1908
Collection number: Mss94
Creator:
Albert Shumate
Extent: 1.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
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], Cooper Medical College Collection, Mss94,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
The Cooper Medical College of San Francisco was founded in 1882 by Levi
Cooper Lane. He named the school for his uncle, Dr. Samuel E. Cooper, who had
founded the first medical school in California--the University of the Pacific
School of Medicine--in 1858.
The University of the Pacific operated their medical school in San
Francisco until 1865. In that year, Dr. Toland opened a competing medical
school in the city and the Methodist Church decided that they would be unable
to compete. Some of the Pacific faculty worked at Toland's school for awhile,
but in 1870 Dr. Levi Cooper Lane decided to revive the University of Pacific
Medical School. Two years later, however, the Methodists permanently severed
their connection with Dr. Lane's school. Holt Atherton Special Collections
holds material on the University of the Pacific Medical School in the
University of Pacific Archives.
From 1872 through 1882 Dr. Lane operated his school in association with
the Presbyterian University (City) College. The school was officially known as
the Medical College of the Pacific. In 1882 Dr. Lane severed the connection
with University College and operated an independent Cooper Medical College
until his death in 1902. In 1908 Cooper Medical College affiliated with
Stanford University.
The period 1872-1882 is represented in this collection by annual
catalogs,valedictory addresses and scattered issues of the Pacific Medical
Journal. The decades 1882-1902 are represented by annual catalogs, valedictory
addresses, scattered issues of the Pacific Medical Journal and a copy of Hans
Barkan's 1954 history of the school.