Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


DR. THOMAS D. SMITH. � Eminently associated with the recent 
development of Central California, is Dr. Thomas D. Smith, one of the pro- 
gressive representatives of the medical profession in the State, and a physician 
of exceptional experience and attainments even before he came to the Pacific 
Coast. He was born in Hancock County, Ohio, on November 17, 1864, the 
son of James P. Smith, a native of England who migrated to America during 
his boyhood days, with his father, Benjamin Smith. The family located 
awhile at Quebec, then came into the United States, to Wheeling, W. Va., and 
from there to Hancock, County, in the Buckeye State. The father was a 
farmer and became well-to-do ; and he lived to the ripe old age of eighty- 
three. James Smith had married Christina McGarry, of French and English 
descent, and of a prominent old family of Virginia, and to them were born 
four children : Irwin H., of Marion, Mich. ; Anna L. Bunnell, of Mt. Blanchard, 
Ohio; Charles C, a physician of King Hill, Idaho; and Thomas D. 

Thomas' boyhood was passed on his father's farm in Hancock County 
and in attending the district school, and later he went to the high school at 
Mt. Blanchard. He was also a student, for a year, at Wooster (Ohio) Uni- 
versity. Then he entered the offices of Drs. Gemmell & Mundy and studied 
under them ; and after that he matriculated at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical 
College, where he completed the regular medical course and graduated with 
the Class of '92. He then took a postgraduate course in the New York Post- 
Graduate College, during 1892 and 1893, and during that time was on the 
staff of physicians of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. These oppor- 
tunities for experience and research in the metropolis of the New World, 
wisely improved, have contributed much to Dr. Smith's scientific knowledge 
and technical proficiency. 

Very soon after Dr. Smith's graduation, in June, 1892, he was united in 
marriage