San Diego County Biographies

B. W. DAY

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of Scotch-English descent, was born at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July, 1833. He 
was educated at the Queen's University at Kingston in the classics, and then 
decided to take medicine. His profession took the medical and surgical course at 
the same university and was graduated in the spring of 1862.
        Dr. Day was first married at Kingston, in 1859. His wife lived but a few 
years, leaving one son and one daughter. The Doctor practiced medicine and 
surgery at Kingston until 1871, when he was again married to Miss Elizabeth 
Powers, of Kingston, Ontario. They went to Chicago, where the Doctor opened an 
office and followed his profession until 1878, when he was obliged to return to 
Kingston, and remained three years, his second wife dying meantime and leaving 
two sons. In 1881, the Doctor again came to the United States and settled at 
Council Grove, Kansas, resuming his profession in medicine. In 1886, he was 
married the third time, at Davenport, Iowa, to Mrs. Addie N. Rambow, and in 1887 
they came to San Diego, where he immediately opened an office and has met with 
very flattering success. The Doctor is a regular physician and apparently well 
up in his profession, a man well preserved in physique, and of pleasing manners 
and address. His children are all with him except his daughter, who is married 
and lives in Kansas. In May, 1888, he took up Government land of 165 acres and 
eighty acres of timber land at Alpine, San Diego County, which he is now 
improving. The timber land he well set to Eucalyptus trees, and the ranch to 
walnuts, prunes, olives and a variety of fruits and vines. The climate of Alpine 
he considers very salubrious, and especially adapted to pulmonary trouble, being 
at an elevation of about 800 feet, with plenty of rainfall, yet with a dry, 
wholesome atmosphere and no frosts. Irrigation is unnecessary, as the water is 
quite near the surface. Springs are easily developed, and, overflowing, give an 
abundance of pure spring water.
        Dr. Day is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 35, and of the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, of which organization he is the medical examiner, and 
he is also surgeon for the Santa F� Railroad Company.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  141