Cabarrus County, NC - George W. Dayvault

George W. Dayvault, MD 
Cabarrus Co. Native
 
From Cabarrus County to California

George W Dayvault, M.D., whose office is on Market St, San Francisco, 
has been a resident of California for the past three years, and has 
been in the practice of medicine since 1884.  He was born in Concord, 
North Carolina, in 1859, and his early education was received in that 
city.  In 1878 he entered Rutherford College, Burke County, North 
Carolina, where he graduated after a three years' course, in 1881, 
receiving a bright scholarship in his class.  He then attended the 
State University, where he took a special scientific course.  At the 
end of that time he decided to study medicine, under the preceptorship 
of Dr Sol Warwick, of Rutherford College.  In 1882 Mr Dayvault entered 
the medical department of the State University of Tennessee at 
Nashville, where he graduated in 1884, after the usual course of study, 
and receiving the class medal for proficiency in medical 
jurisprudence.  He soon removed to Missouri, where he engaged in the 
practice of medicine at Hume, continuing there until 1887.  He then 
went to New York and took a course of lectures and study at the Post - 
Graduate School, after which he took a special course in the treatment 
of diseases of the nose and throat.  He then came to San Francisco, 
where he entered upon the the general practice of medicine, devoting 
special attention to the study and treatment of the nose and throat.  
He is a member of the San Francisco County and State Medical Societies 
of California.

Dr Dayvault's family have long been residents of North Carolina, and 
are of Pennsylvania-German descent.  His great grandfather Jacob 
Dayvault, was a native of Pennsylvania, who enlisted in the 
Revolutionary army, under the command of General Greene, and was in the 
campaigns of the Carolinas, settling in North Carolina after the 
surrender of Cornwallis.  Dr Dayvault's father was in the Confederate 
Army in the War of the Rebellion, and died in 1862, of wounds received 
in the service.

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