San Diego County Biographies
 
CHARLES M. FENN, A. M., M. D.

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of San Diego, eminent for his culture and skill in his profession, was born June 
18, 1835, in Hamilton, Ohio; a son of William and Anna Maria Merwin, who were 
married December 24, 1833; the father was born June 23, 1807, in Connecticut. He 
followed the mercantile business all his life. During the thirties he removed to 
Lacon, Illinois; he died in 1873, at Bloomington, same State; his father, 
Gamaliel Fenn, was born February 16, 1775. The Doctor's mother was born January 
3, 1814.  They had three children, of whom Charles M. was the oldest and the 
only son. The daughters were Francis and Mary Lincoln Fenn.
        The Doctor's early education was had at Lacon, later in Amherst, 
Massachusetts. His classical education began at the Illinois College in Jackson 
and was finished at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. He then studied 
medicine and was graduated at the medical department, University of California, 
in 1865. He had come to California in 1860. He commenced the practice of his 
profession in San Francisco, where he remained eight years, and then came to San 
Diego in the early part of 1869.
        He was married June 21, 1872, to Miss Callie D. Archambeau. She was born 
August 26, 1841, in Los Angeles. They remained in Los Angeles about a year, then 
came to San Diego, bought twenty acres of land near the city, which they still 
own. It has been subdivided into town lots. He has served one year as County 
Coroner and Administrator, and has also been County Physician for several years, 
and health officer of the city. The Doctor had the degree of Master of Arts 
conferred on him by the State College of Illinois.
 
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.-  326