San Diego County Biographies
 
DR. HARRISON E. STROUD

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is a promising young physician and surgeon of Oceanside, and in connection with 
his practice owns and manages a drug store.  He is a native of Birmingham, 
England, born December 22, 1856. The earliest knowledge he has of his ancestors 
is that they came from Normandy with William the Conqueror. The name Stroud is 
one of the oldest in England. His mother, Annie L. (Layton) Stroud, was a native 
of England also. His father was a lamp manufacturer for many years. His mother's 
father was a wholesale dealer in Clure, near Windsor, England. His parents had a 
family of twelve children, of which the subject of this sketch was the seventh. 
It is said that the seventh son is either a fool or a doctor, and our Doctor, 
having his choice, chose to be the latter, and the results have proven that the 
choice was well made. He received his education first in King Edward's School, 
Birmingham, which King Edward endowed. It is a magnificent structure, built of 
huge blocks of stone three feet square, and the floors, both up and down stairs, 
are of stone. After coming to America he graduated at the State University of 
Colorado. In 1884 he engaged in the practice of his profession at Grand 
Junction, Colorado, and while there held the offices of County Physician, County 
Superintendent of Schools, and County Coroner. He was also surgeon of the Denver 
& Rio Grande Railroad. From there he went to San Diego, and in 1888 he opened 
his drug store at Oceanside, where he still continues the practice of medicine. 
He owns town lots and ranch land, and is interested in all that pertains to the 
well-being of Oceanside. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. The Doctor is 
not only a nice business gentleman, but he is a physician and surgeon of 
excellent talent and ability.
 
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.-  269