Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry Jr. GIBBONS
GIBBONS, Henry, physician, was born in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 24, 1840; son of Dr. Henry and Martha (Poole) Gibbons, In 1851 he removed with his parents to San Francisco, Cal., where he was graduated from the medical department of the University of the Pacific in 1863. He served as acting assistant surgeon in the Douglas hospital at Washington, D.C., 1863-65, and then returned to San Francis, to practise his profession. In 1870 he was made dean and professor of materia medica in the medical department of the University of the Pacific, and when this became the Cooper medical college he was retained as dean and professor of obstetrics. [p.274] He also served as health officer of San Francisco, 1870-73, as a member of the board of health, 1880-83, and as a member of the board of education, 1889-90. He was made a member of the various medical societies of the Pacific slope and in 1897 was elected president of the California state medical society. In 1871 he was married to Marie Conger, daughter of Samuel Augustus and Mary A. Raymond of Toledo. Ohio.
Dr. Henry Gibbons, Jr., was graduated from the San Francisco High 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. For a year or more he was closely associated with Dr. E. S. Cooper, receiving in this association an exceptional training in surgery, which soon stood him in goog stead, for, 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. For two years he had a surgical service in the Douglas Military Hospital in Washington and also saw some service in the field.
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 received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University of the Pacific. He was elected Dean of the Medical College of the Pacific in 1871, which position he retained in this college and its sucessor, 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 in 1911. In 1910 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Gynecology and Obstertics in Stanford University.
Always active in civic affairs, he held the position of Health Officer of San Francisco for three years, 1870 to 1873, and was a member of the Board of Health from 1880 to 1883, and subsequently was a member of the Board of Education. He kept in touch with all movements for civic good and was a member of the committee appointed by Mayor Edward R. Taylor to draw up a report of the citizens of San Francisco on the history of the Graft Prosecution.
Dr. Gibbons continued in active work in teaching and in practice until within a few weeks of his death, when, because of a rapidly advancing arterial sclerosis, he was confined to his bed and, on September 27, 1911, passed away.
The Faculty and Alumni of Cooper Medical College, with the assistance of many friends and former patients of Dr. Gibbons, have founded in his honor a section on Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Lane Medical Library as the most fitting memorial to one who has been a lifelong teacher in those subjects.
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