Yolo-Glenn County CA Archives Biographies.....Rasor, Claire 1883 - ************************************************ 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@gmail.com January 18, 2006, 4:41 pm Author: Tom Gregory CLAIRE RASOR, PH.D., M.D. The Sacramento valley has just reason to feel proud of its native-born sons, many of whom have attained distinction in their chosen callings and have risen to prominence not limited to the boundaries of the locality, but extending throughout the state. In the list of rising citizens mention belongs to Dr. Rasor, a young physician of exceptional ability, thorough education and profound mastery of the science of therapeutics, who has scored many a success in surgery and holds an enviable rank in that department of the profession. Since he entered upon practice in Woodland he has proved his skill in diagnosis, accuracy in treatment and the wide scope of his researches in materia medica. Perhaps no work in which he has engaged exceeds in importance that in connection with the Woodland sanitarium, an incorporated institution, of which he is vice-president and a member of the board of directors. The hospital owes its establishment to the public spirit and energy of five physicians of Woodland, of whom he was one. Realizing the great need of such an institution they united their efforts. The result appears in a structure built in mission style at a cost of $22,500, and equipped with all modern appliances for the care of patients and the performance of surgical operations of all kinds, major and minor, trivial and extreme, these being carried through with dispatch and skill, to the credit of the institution and the gratification of the interested parties. A resume of the life of Dr. Rasor shows that he is eligible to membership in the Native Sons of the Golden West and has the further honor of being a lifelong resident of the Sacramento valley. In what is now Glenn county, but then was within the limits of Colusa county, he was born June 15, 1883, on a farm near Willows. Of Virginian lineage, he was a son of Andrew Jackson Rasor, a native of the Old Dominion, but in early life an emigrant to Missouri, whence during the summer of 1850 he crossed the plains with wagons and ox-teams. He was then a youth of eighteen years, rugged and well fitted to endure the hardships of such a journey as well as the subsequent privations incident to mining. From the mines he went to the agricultural lands and for years engaged in the raising of grain and stock. A tract of twelve hundred and eighty acres four miles north of Princeton was improved through his painstaking labors and there he built a substantial farmhouse, added other buildings as needed, and lived the arduous life of a western pioneer farmer. Eventually he retired from active labors and spent his last days in the enjoyment of the comforts rendered possible through earlier years of self-sacrifice. His death occurred August 26, 1910, about sixty years after he had crossed the plains to the coast. In politics he was a lifelong Democrat, while fraternally he was identified with the Masons. About ten years before his demise that of his wife had occurred September 11, 1900, at the old homestead; she bore the maiden name of Clara Brockman and was born in Missouri, from which state in 1856 she accompanied her parents across the plains. There were nine sons and daughters in the parental family and five of these survive. The youngest member of the family circle, Claire, passed the years of early childhood upon the home farm, from which he was sent to the Woodland high school. After he had graduated in 1902 he entered the department of pharmacy, University of California, and carried on the regular course there, graduating in 1904 with the degree of Ph. G. Immediately after his graduation he matriculated in the medical department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., and there he finished the regular course of study, graduating in 1908 with the degree of M.D. An experience as an interne at Wesley hospital in Chicago proved most helpful to him and he continued in the position for two years, after which in 1910 he opened an office at Woodland. Here he married Miss Martha Garrette, who had been his classmate in the high school and who has spent her life in her native city. In politics he was reared in the Democratic faith and always has adhered to its principles. Fraternally he was made a Mason in Woodland Lodge No. 156, F. & A. M., and during his college life he was identified with the Phi Delta Chi and Phi Rho Sigma, while since then he has become an active member in the Yolo County Medical Society (of which he is now vice-president), also the State and American Medical Associations. Additional Comments: Extracted from HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA WITH Biographical Sketches OF The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present HISTORY BY TOM GREGORY AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/bios/rasor357bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb