Biography of Francis F. Mendoza, Key West, Monroe Co., FL

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FRANCIS F. MENDOZA

     Francis Felix Mendoza, of Key West, Monroe county, Florida, is an American
citizen of Cuban descent, having been born in Guiness, near Havana, Cuba, July 10,
1851, where he remained until six years of age, and began his earlier and elementary
education in the best public schools.  In 1857, he entered the Subizarreta's School,
a very creditable college of Havana, in which he remained three years.  From 1861 to
1863, he continued his studies in the High School of his birth-place, and in this
period was editor of the infantile [manuscript] newspaper...  In Vera Cruz, Mexico,
he was auxiliary phsyician of the port [quarantine], and of the Lazaretto.  Om 1888,
he went to Key West, Florida, where he has since been engaged in the general
practice of his profession, and has performed many surgical operations of
importance.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894,
Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, pp. 322-323.

[Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com]