Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Sisson, Sanford S. November 21, 1877 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 July 20, 2015, 1:44 am Source: Vol. II pg.40 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present SANFORD STONE SISSON. M.D., is head of the Sisson Clinic, Incorporated, at Jacksonville. This is an organization for the practice of group medicine, being an association of physicians and dentists representing various departments of medicine, dentistry, surgery and the specialties, practicing together as a group. The basis of all treatment is a thorough diagnosis, and the treatments that follow represent the combined and individual skill of the men comprising the clinic, many of them specialist in their fields. The facilities include everything for the application of general medicine and surgery, and also such special departments as x-ray, radium, and an electro-therapy. Doctor Sisson was born on his father’s farm near Mayfield in Graves County, Kentucky, November 21, 1877, and is a son of OSCAR M. and MATTIE (HOBSON) SISSON, who were also natives of Graves County. His father was born in 1848 and died in 1910, and his mother was born in 1858. Doctor Sisson was the second of nine children, five sons and four daughters, seven of whom are living. OSCAR SISSON was a farmer and tobacco grower, one of the very substantial citizens of Graves County, was a personal friend of the late HENRY WATTERSON, was active in the Masonic Order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a democrat and a member of the Christian Church. Doctor Sisson acquired a grammar and high school education in Kentucky and at the age of eighteen began teaching. Through teaching he paid the expenses of his medical education. For several years he attended the University of Louisville seven months and taught the rest of the year. He was only seven years of age when he determined to become a physician, and of that ambition he never lost sight. He graduated in medicine in 1902, and first located in the small Town of Cuba, Kentucky, where he remained about seven years. While there he married Miss SUE M. COULTER. Their honeymoon was a trip to Europe. In London Doctor Sisson attended the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, from which he received his diploma November 14, 1910. He did further work in the Pasteur Institute at Paris, and was graduated from Moorefield’s Hospital of London on January 2, 1911. On returning from abroad Doctor Sisson located at Jacksonville, and his successful practice and his Association with other physicians brought about the organization of the Sisson Clinic. Since August 27, 1913, Doctor Sisson has been United States pension examiner at Jacksonville, and since 1917 he has been physician and surgeon to the Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home. He is a member of Russell Lodge No. 121, F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Baptist Church and in politics is a democrat. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/duval/bios/sisson113bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb