San Joaquin County Biographies


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FISHER R. CLARKE, M. D.
 
        On the pages of Stockton's pioneer history appears the name of Fisher R. 
Clarke, who, for more than thirty years, has practiced the medical profession in 
that city. He was born in the rural districts near Bangor, Penobscot County, 
Maine and received his education in the public schools of his native county; he 
was then employed as a school teacher in Somerset and Penobscot Counties for 
several years. During the year of 1872 he came west to California on one of the 
early emigrant trains to cross the continent and upon arrival in Sacramento 
taught school for two years. In 1874 he took up his residence in Stockton and 
founded the Stockton Business College, which he conducted successfully for 
twelve years. For two years he taught mathematics in the California Military 
Academy in Oakland, Cal. Following this he took up the study of medicine in the 
Cooper Medical College of San Francisco and in 1891 was graduated from the 
Kentucky School of Medicine located at Louisville, and during the same year 
started practicing medicine in Stockton. For the past twenty-eight years he has 
been surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Stockton. Dr. Clarke has also 
been interested and active in farming pursuits in the San Joaquin Valley, having 
owned and farmed to grain and stock, a section of land near Escalon, which he 
later disposed of.
        Dr. Clarke's marriage united him with Miss Mae A. Corson, a native of 
Maine and an old student. They are the parents of one son, Reed M. Clarke, an 
attorney of San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Stockton high school and the 
University of California; at one time was assistant district attorney of San 
Joaquin County; he is now associated with the firm of Klein, Clarke & Gerlach. 
During the World War he was commissioned a lieutenant. Dr. Clarke has always 
been active in the educational affairs of Stockton and San Joaquin County and 
has served as a member of Stockton Board of Education. Many prominent business 
and professional men of Stockton were students of Dr. Clarke during the time of 
his management of the Stockton Business College He is a member of the national, 
state and county medical societies, and fraternally is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias and the United Workmen. In whatever line of work he has been engaged, 
his plans and ideas have been of a constructive nature, and his popularity and 
success has been achieved by conscientious toil and intelligent application to 
the task in hand.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p     408
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.