Alameda County Biographies

B. B. MASTEN, M. D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Dr. B. B. Masten, who since 1906 has been in active and successful practice of 
medicine and surgery in Oakland, where he is numbered among the foremost representatives 
of his profession, was born in Brazil, Indiana, in 1871, and acquired his early education in the 
public schools of Lafayette, in the same state. He afterward took a course in mechanical 
engineering at Purdue University and then entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 
where he spent three years. At the end of that time he enrolled in Bennett Medical College of 
Chicago and in 1895 was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D.
	He came to California in 1896 but remained only a short time, returning to Chicago 
and accepting a position as house physician at the Palmer House. He did creditable and able 
work in that capacity for a number of years, after which, in 1905, he returned west, locating in 
San Francisco. After one year's practice there he moved his office to Oakland and here he has 
since built up a large and representative patronage, accorded to him in recognition of his 
unusual proficiency in his chosen field of labor. Dr. Masten belongs to the National Medical 
Association and the state and county medical societies and keeps in touch with his profession 
in its most advanced phases. Everything pertaining to the medical science, every new experiment, 
every different field of investigation and research are of interest to him, and he himself has always 
remained a close and earnest student, his powers developing with the years. In Oakland he is 
regarded as an able, conscientious and reliable physician and has the respect of his associates in 
the medical fraternity and the esteem and confidence of the local public.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 216