Tehama-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....West, John M. 1837 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DR. JOHN M. WEST, a prominent physician of Red Bluff, was born in Athens,
Illinois, December 22, 1837. His remote ancestors came to this country from
England and settled in the South long before the Revolution. His father, J. C.
West, was a native of Tennessee, a strict Methodist and a farmer. His
grandfather, Jacob West, was a soldier in the war of 1812. The Doctor's mother,
Eliza (White) West, was a native of Kentucky. He is one of a family of eight
children, only two of whom survive.

  The subject of this sketch took his first course in the Missouri Medical
College, and graduated from the Rush Medical College, February 27, 1864. He
entered the Union army as contract surgeon in June, 1862, and was with the
Twenty-eighth Illinois Regiment, doing regiment and hospital service. It was
after leaving the army, that he graduated and commenced the practice of his
profession in Springfield, Illinois, where he continued until 1877. In that year
he came to California, located in San Francisco and practiced medicine until
1880, when he came to Red Bluff. Here he established a medical practice and has
met with eminent success. A love for the study of medicine Caused Dr. West to
make it his life profession, and it is with a deep interest and untiring zeal
that he engages in its practice.

  Since coming to Red Bluff, Dr. West has purchased property on Washington
street, between Oak and Sycamore, where he has erected a handsome and commodious
home. He is also interested in farming lands and fruit culture.

  In 1863 he married Miss Susie Lockwood, a native of Connecticut. To them have
been born three children, viz.: Jacob H. and Edna, born near Springfield,
Illinois, and Neva, born at Red Bluff. Mrs. West is an interesting and amiable
lady, and an earnest and efficient member of the Presbyterian Church of Red Bluff.

  Politically the Doctor's views are in harmony with Democratic principles.
Twice he has been elected Coroner and Administrator of his county, and he now
(1890) holds that position. He is a blue lodge, Royal Arch and Knight Templar
Mason, and is also a Knight, of Pythias.


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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