Colusa County Biographies

Dr. R. B. Duncan

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            R. B. Duncan was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, October 6, 1846.  
In October, 1851, his father removed to northwest Missouri, living in Daviess 
and Gentry Counties, where young Duncan worked on a farm in summer and attended 
such schools as a newly-settled backwoods country afforded, in winter.  All the 
schools in this part of the State were interrupted during the war, as the entire 
social fabric was generally deranged at the time.  After the war, he continued 
work on the farm till February, 1867, when he began teaching in Platte County, 
Missouri.  He was engaged in teaching and going to school alternately for six 
years.  He began the study of medicine in 1869, and, by dint of hard work and 
close economy, completed his medical course, graduating from the Missouri 
Medical College, March 4, 1873.  His entire education, professional and 
literary, was the result of his own unassisted labors.  In March, 1874, he was 
married to Miss S. E. Stone, of Platte County, Missouri, by whom he has had four 
children, none of whom are now living.  He practiced his profession from March, 
1873, to September, 1880, in Platte County, Missouri, when he removed to Orland, 
California, his present place of residence.  Here he has lived and enjoyed a 
liberal practice in his profession for ten years, at the same time enjoying, 
with his amiable wife, the esteem and regard of his neighbors.  In November, 
1888, Dr. Duncan was elected Coroner and Administrator of the county.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 424