Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameHenry GIBBONS Jr. 
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1252Birth Date24 Sep 1840
Death Date27 Sep 1911 Age: 71
OccupationDean Cooper Medical College
FatherDr. Henry GIBBONS Sr. (1808-)
MotherMartha POOLE
Misc. Notes
The fourth child of his parents he became the Dean of Cooper Medical College.*
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In this department I have to note the death of Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr., Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and late Dean of the Cooper Medical College. Dr. Gibbons was born in Wilmington, Delaware, September 24, 1840, of colonial Quaker stock, and of a family many of whom were members of the medical profession. He was graduated from the San Francisco Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr ^'gl1 School in 1856, at the age of 16 years.
He taught school for a time and then entered the Medical College of the Pacific, from which he was graduated in 1863. Immediately after graduating, he went East to do post-graduate work in the University of Pennsylvania, but instead accepted the position of acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army in Washington, D. C.
Returning to San Francisco, Dr. Gibbons was associated with his father in the practice of medicine and in the editorship of the Pacific Medical Journal. He was elected Dean of the Medical College of the Pacific in 1871, which position he retained in this college and its successor. Cooper Medical College, until his death, thus devoting forty years of his life to the cause of medical education.
In this institution he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics from 1871 to 1873, and from the latter date Professor of Diseases of Women and Children until his death on September 27th, 1911. In 1910 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Stanford University. Always active in civic affairs, he held the position of Health Officer of San Francisco for three years, and was at different periods member of the Board of Health and of the Board of Education.
The former friends and pupils of Dr. Henry Gibbons, Jr., have started in his memory a fund for the endowment of a portion of the Lane Medical Library, to be known as the "Henry Gibbons, Jr. Library of Obstetrics and Gynecology."3568
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In 1864 Henry Gibbons was appointed Professor of Medicine at a new medical school in San Francisco, the Toland Medical College. In 1870 Gibbons resigned from the faculty at Toland to restart the former Pacific Medical School which later became Cooper Medical College in 1882.3569
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The teaching staff in the Obstetrics and Gynecology division at the Stanford University Medical School for 1913-14 and 1915-16 included the name of Henry Walter Gibbons. [Is he the son of this Henry Gibbons Jr.?]3570
*Cooper Medical College, originally based in San Francisco, was founded in 1882. It is the oldest continuously running medical school in the western United States and in 1912 became the Stanford University School of Medicine, a leading medical school. The school is located at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California and moved to the campus in 1959.3571
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In this department I have to note the death of Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr., Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and late Dean of the Cooper Medical College. Dr. Gibbons was born in Wilmington, Delaware, September 24, 1840, of colonial Quaker stock, and of a family many of whom were members of the medical profession. He was graduated from the San Francisco Dr. Henry Gibbons Jr ^'gl1 School in 1856, at the age of 16 years.
He taught school for a time and then entered the Medical College of the Pacific, from which he was graduated in 1863. Immediately after graduating, he went East to do post-graduate work in the University of Pennsylvania, but instead accepted the position of acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army in Washington, D. C.
Returning to San Francisco, Dr. Gibbons was associated with his father in the practice of medicine and in the editorship of the Pacific Medical Journal. He was elected Dean of the Medical College of the Pacific in 1871, which position he retained in this college and its successor. Cooper Medical College, until his death, thus devoting forty years of his life to the cause of medical education.
In this institution he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics from 1871 to 1873, and from the latter date Professor of Diseases of Women and Children until his death on September 27th, 1911. In 1910 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Stanford University. Always active in civic affairs, he held the position of Health Officer of San Francisco for three years, and was at different periods member of the Board of Health and of the Board of Education.
The former friends and pupils of Dr. Henry Gibbons, Jr., have started in his memory a fund for the endowment of a portion of the Lane Medical Library, to be known as the "Henry Gibbons, Jr. Library of Obstetrics and Gynecology."3568
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In 1864 Henry Gibbons was appointed Professor of Medicine at a new medical school in San Francisco, the Toland Medical College. In 1870 Gibbons resigned from the faculty at Toland to restart the former Pacific Medical School which later became Cooper Medical College in 1882.3569
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The teaching staff in the Obstetrics and Gynecology division at the Stanford University Medical School for 1913-14 and 1915-16 included the name of Henry Walter Gibbons. [Is he the son of this Henry Gibbons Jr.?]3570
*Cooper Medical College, originally based in San Francisco, was founded in 1882. It is the oldest continuously running medical school in the western United States and in 1912 became the Stanford University School of Medicine, a leading medical school. The school is located at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California and moved to the campus in 1959.3571