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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

S. M. ARCHER, M. D., is not only an eminent physician and genial gentleman, but
one of the landmarks of Monterey county, having resided here since 1869. He has
reached the age of forty-two, and came to California from Louisville, Kentucky,
in 1868. He comes from a long line of colonial settlers, the first of whom made
their homes in Maryland and Virginia. At a later date members of the family
participated in the wars of the Revolution and 1812, and in the early Indian
wars, many of them filling important positions in the army and Government. Among
Dr. Archer's ancestors, is John Archer, of Maryland, who was the first man to
graduate in medicine in the United States. He obtained his diploma from the
Philadelphia Medical College in 1768.

  The subject of this sketch received his college education at the Asbury
(Indiana) University, and graduated in medicine, at Louisville. He then attended
the clinics at the Bellevue and Blackwell Island hospitals, New York, for a
considerable length of time. After arriving in San Francisco, as an adventure,
and to see more of the world, he made a trip to China, via Sandwich Islands and
Japan, as surgeon of a vessel. The passage both ways was rough, dangerous and
disagreeable, and when the young medico got back to San Francisco he concluded
that he had enough of "life on the ocean wave."

  He determined to locate in the country, contrary to the advice of Dr. H. H.
Toland, the well-known physician of San Francisco, to whom he had letters of
introduction from personal friends. In 1869 he went to Monterey county,
intending to return to the city to locate permanently, in a few years, but he
soon became a fixture in Monterey county, although he is often called to the
city professionally. In 1872 he was appointed County Physician of the county
hospital, and has held that position ever since, during which time he has
treated successfully more desperate cases of dropsy than any other physician in
the State. He served one term as Coroner and Public Administrator, from 1876 to
1878, but declined a renomination, and also declined the nomination for the
Assembly in 1886. Dr. Archer is married and has seven daughters.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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