Yavapai-Mohave County AZ Archives Biographies.....Sewall, Charles Albert 1849 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 498

  DR. CHARLES ALBERT SEWALL. To heal the sick and cure the ills to which the
human body is heir is noble but arduous labor, and is the most trying on brain
and body of any in the field of science. Dr. Sewall is scholarly and well
informed in every branch of his profession, and while pursuing it has seen a
great deal of Western life, and as a surgeon of the United States army has had
numerous opportunities of witnessing the mode of warfare practiced by the
Indian. By nativity he is a product of the East, his birth having occurred in
Baltimore, Maryland, October 16, 1849, but when still a mere lad he was taken
into the interior and in the public schools of Philadelphia he acquired a
thorough education. After his literary education was completed he began the
study of medicine with Dr. J. Ewing Mears, a resident physician of the City of
Brotherly Love, after which he entered the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania, in 1869, and was graduated from this institution in 1872. He at
once entered upon the practice of his profession in his native State, but one
year later, in 1873, entered the United States army as acting assistant surgeon,
and until 1890 was located at frontier posts in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
and Texas, the most important of which were Santa Fe, El Paso, Fort Lewis,
Colo.; Fort Wingate, New Mexico; Fort Mohave, Arizona Territory, and at
Cummings, New Mexico. In 1890 he came to Prescott, and for some time was located
at Whipple Barracks as post surgeon, but one and one-half years later began a
private practice in Prescott, where he has become known as a skillful and
reliable practitioner, and has built up a large patronage. During the war with
the Apache Indians, he was with the troops in the field and served with Generals
Hatch, Buell and Bradley and Colonel Dudley, during which time he met with some
thrilling experiences and had some narrow escapes from the scalping knife. The
country being without railroad facilities, the Doctor was obliged to stage it to
different posts, many of which trips were marked by the most exciting events and
frequently by no inconsiderable danger. Dr. Sewall is the county physician for
Yavapai County, and is one of the health officers of the city of Prescott. He is
also secretary of the Yavapai County Medical Association, and since his
residence in Prescott has shown the utmost interest in all her municipal affairs
and is justly regarded as one of her most substantial and reliable citizens. The
Doctor was married to Miss Virginia Evans, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
and a niece of W. C. Bashford of Prescott. They have one son, Bashford Perry,
who was born April 14, 1889.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896


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