Tehama-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Tarter, A. P. 1860 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 31, 2007, 5:20 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) A. P. TARTER, M. D., is a worthy member of the medical profession of Tehama County. He is a native of California, and dates his birth at Tehama, June 27, 1860, where he was reared and received his education, first in the public schools and then in the Conklin Academy, where he took a one-year course. His father, Nicholas Tarter, was a native of Virginia, and was also a medical practitioner, who came to California in 1849, and died in 1870; his mother, nee Mary E. Jones, was also a native of Virginia, and recently returned to her native State, where she is for the present on a visit. The ancestors on both sides were of German extraction. In 1879 our subject went to San Francisco, where he commenced his medical course of reading with Dr. W. H. Mays of that city. He took a course of lectures in the Medical College of San Francisco, after which he was admitted to the San Francisco county hospital as an interne (a competitive position), where he served six months as assistant physician and six months as assistant surgeon. In 1884 he returned to his native town and began the practice of medicine. Recently he came again to San Francisco and purchased the drug store of Dr. W. P. Mathews, and added the drug business to his profession. Dr. Tarter was joined in marriage, at San Francisco, January 10, 1883, with Miss Emma J. Mann, a native of California. Politically the Doctor affiliates with the Democratic party. He has joined no secret order, but carries on insurance with the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/tarter616gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb