Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE T. POMEROY, M. D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Dr. George T. Pomeroy, who has been actively engaged in practice as a physician and 
surgeon of Oakland for the past seven years, is an able and representative member of the 
medical profession here. He was born in Whiteside county, Illinois, on the 8th of February, 
1877, the son of a Methodist minister. At the early age of thirteen years he began providing 
for his own support, going to Chicago and there working for a time in the office of Dr. A. B. 
Strong. There it was that his ambition to one day become a physician took root. In 1892 he made 
his way to Arizona and in that state worked with a surveying crew. Always an omnivorous reader 
and deep student and anxious to augment his knowledge, he next attended both night school and 
business college in Los Angeles, California. Subsequently he went to Valparaiso, Indiana, and 
there began preparatory work in the study of medicine. On returning to Arizona he became 
paymaster at the Commonwealth mine at Pearce. At the time of the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
war he entered the government employ, serving as quartermaster's agent for Fort Grant, Arizona, 
stationed at Wilcox, that state, and also as special revenue collector in Arizona. Subsequently 
he took up the study of mining and chemistry, mastering a correspondence course at night.
	In 1902 Dr. Pomeroy came to Oakland, California, and here entered the Oakland College of 
Medicine and Surgery, being the very first student enrolled in the institution and a member of 
the first graduating class in 1906. The city of Oakland his since remained the scene of his 
professional labors, and the large practice accorded him is proof of his skill and ability in 
the line of his chosen vocation. For a year he acted as resident physician at Providence 
Hospital. In the summer of 1913 he took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College of 
Chicago, and he has also kept in close touch with the progress which is being continually made 
by the profession through his membership in the Alameda County Medical Society, the California 
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
	In 1906 Dr. Pomeroy was united in marriage to Miss Grace Creasinger, of Los Angeles, 
California. He has taken an active part in church and Sunday school work, being one of the 
officials in the Methodist church of Oakland and an officer in the California State Association 
of Sunday Schools. He is likewise the youngest member of the board of trustees of the Young Men's 
Christian Association in Oakland. His record is that of a self-made man who has won recognition 
and success entirely by his own efforts and wisely directed energy and may well serve as a source 
of inspiration and encouragement to others.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 442