Imperial-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Smith, Virginia Tenny 1860 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

VIRGINIA TENNY SMITH, M. D.—A notable figure among the residents of the Imperial
Valley is Dr. Virginia Tenny Smith, who came to Calipatria in 1914 from Los
Angeles. The new county was unusually fortunate in securing a physician so
experienced and skilled in her profession and a woman of such broad culture and
personal charm. Virginia Tenny Smith was born March 20, 1860, in old Vermont, of
American parentage, but of Huguenot descent. After attending the convent at
Burlington, Vermont, she entered the medical school of Boston University, from
which she received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1888. After a year's time
spent as resident physician in the Dio Lewis Sanitarium, she located in Detroit,
Mich., and devoted her time to private practice. But in 1907 the lure of the
West became too strong to be resisted and she came to Los Angeles, California,
where she remained until her removal to the Imperial Valley. Dr. Smith is an
ex-member of the Boston Medical Association, the American Institute of
Homeopathy, the Michigan State Medical Society, the American Medical
Association, and the Medical Association of Southern California. Dr. Smith was
the first person to purchase land from the syndicate at Calipatria, in 1914.
There were other settlers in that section, but the doctor purchased the first
forty-acre tract. Her beautiful ranch is equipped with every improvement known
to modern ranching, and includes a number of labor-saving devices. She had a
beautiful residence which was destroyed by fire in October, 1917. Her home was
filled with priceless oriental rugs and furniture from all over the world and
was destroyed in the fire. Dr. Smith's ranch is the show place of the north end.
She has been a conscientious and hard worker, and she is today a worthy
representative of true Western womanhood.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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