Alameda County Biographies

May H. Sampson, M. D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Dr. May H. Sampson, since 1907 in active and successful practice of medicine in 
Berkeley, is a native Californian, born in Mendocino county. Her father, Eugene Sampson, was
 born in Maine and followed a seafaring life for many years, coming in the bark Olive Jane 
around the Horn to California in pioneer times. The mother was also a native of Maine and a 
pioneer in California, having crossed the Isthmus and come to this state at a very early date.
	Dr. Sampson was reared in Mendocino county and acquired her preliminary education 
in the public schools. She afterwards engaged in teaching there until 1895 when she came to 
Berkeley, where she followed the same occupation in the schools of this city. Later she took up 
the study of medicine, a profession which had always attracted her, entering Cooper Medical 
College, from which she was graduated, M. D. in 1906. In order to supplement her knowledge by 
practical experience she served one year as interne in the Children's Hospital in San Francisco, 
and then began the active practice of her profession, coming to Berkeley, where she has since 
resided. In recognition of her knowledge of medicine and her skill and ability in the application of 
it she has been accorded a liberal and representative patronage and has gained a high place 
among the leading physicians in the city where she makes her home. She keeps in touch with the 
most advanced professional thought through her membership in the state and county medical 
societies and has remained always a close and earnest student of the medical science, the results 
of this study being evident in the excellent work she has done along medical lines. Dr. Sampson is 
a member of the Friends' Church and is well known in Berkeley, where her many sterling qualities 
of mind and character have won her an extensive circle of friends.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 198