Lake-Sacramento-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Downs, J. S. 1831 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. S. DOWNS, M. D., one of the oldest practicing physicians of Northern
California, was born in the city of Haverhill, New. Hampshire, April 14, 1831.
He received his early education in the schools of Newbury, Vermont. At the age
of fourteen he went to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he studied medicine with
Dr. Edward Cox, for five years. In 1847 he went to Chicago, where he attended
one session of the Rush Medical College. He then went to St. Louis and entered
the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in 1848. In the spring of 1849
he crossed the plains to California, arriving at Sacramento in July, where he
engaged in the practice of medicine, uninterruptedly for the following ten
years. In 1859, having lost his health, through overwork and exposure incidental
to the practice of his profession, he went to Lakeport, Lake County, where he
practiced for three years. Having regained his health, he then went to Napa City
where he engaged in practice with Dr. W. W. Stillwagon until 1864. His health
again failing him, he returned to Lakeport, where he has since resided and
followed his profession, and where he has established a very pleasant and
comfortable home. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Kate Sheridan, a daughter of
Hon. James E. Sheridan, who has served in both branches of the California
Legislature. He was a cousin to General Phil H. Sheridan. They have three
children: Frank, Charles S. and Ernst.

  Frank is in business in San Francisco, Charles S. in the drug business in
Oakland, and Ernst, the youngest, is reading medicine with his father.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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