California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


FRANK C. PEIRSOL, M. D.� Among the physicians who liave estab- 
lished themselves as successful in the profession we find Dr. Frank C. Peirsol, 
who was born at New Brighton, Beaver county. Pa., October 31. 1870. His 
father, J. Kastor Peirsol, was also a native of Beaver county. He graduated 
from Mt. Union College and engaged in teaching until the war. when he 
served in the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry. After the war he was admitted to 
the bar and practiced law in Pennsylvania until 1887. when he located in Oak- 
land, and while practicing there served one term as city attorney. In 1898 
he located in Fort Bragg, where he has practiced law ever since. 

Frank C. Peirsol's preliminary education was obtained in the public 
schools of Pennsylvania. In 1887 he, with his parents, came to Oakland, 
where he attended the high school for a time but gave it up to take a position 
m a planing mill in San Francisco, where he continued for three and a half 
years. Having a desire to study medicine he concluded to enter upon medical 
studies and matriculated at the California Medical College in San Fran- 
cisco, graduating in 1895 with the degree of M. D-. and M. S. His first prac- 
tice was at Haywards, Cal., remaining there until 1807, when he came to 
Mendocino. After practicing for two years he determined to still further 
perfect himself in the profession and returning to San Francisco spent one 
year at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and in 1900 received the 
degree of M. D. from that institution. For two years he practiced in Fort 
Bragg, at the same time being connected with the hospital in that city. After 
a year spent in -practice in the hospitals of San Francisco he again located in 
Mendocino in 1903, since which time he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of medicine and surgery, having acquired a large and lucrative prac- 
tice. Dr. Peirsol is interested in real estate on the bay. In 1911 he purchased 
six acres in Richmond, which tract he laid out into seventy-nine lots known 
as the Costa Home tract, and on account of the rapid growth of that section 
the property has become valuable. 

The marriage of Dr. Peirsol occurred at Martinez, where he was united 
with Edith Kinsey, a native of Grass Valley, this state, and to them have been 
born four children : James, Madge, Clayton and Edith. Dr. Peirsol has been 
very active fraternally, being a member of Fort Bragg Lodge No. 306, I. O 
O. F. and Redwood Encampment No. 67 at Fort Bragg. He is also a member 
of the Woodmen of the World at Mendocino and the Foresters at Caspar. He 
became a member of the Red Men in Pottawattamie Tribe No. 84 at Haywards 
and on the organization of Waw Beek Tribe No. 164 at Mendocino he became 
a charter member and was its first sachem. Politically he is an ardent Repub- 
lican.