Henry Gibbons Papers,
Scope and Content
Includes transcriptions of original correspondence; pamphlets. Gift of Dr. Morton Gibbons, January 13, 1931.
Dates
- Creation: 1833-1880
Language of Materials
English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Biography
Gibbons was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an English emigre family who had followed William Penn to Pennsylvania. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1829, and practiced with his father, William Gibbons, in Wilmington until 1844. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Medicine from that date until he went to San Francisco in 1850.
He was a founding member of the California State Medical Society, and served as its president in 1857 and 1871. Gibbons was a member of the faculty of the Cooper Medical College, and member of the California State Board of Health. He died in Wilmington, Delaware, November 5, 1884.
Extent
.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Physical Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
General
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
General
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- May 1993
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
- Title
- Register of the Henry Gibbons Papers, 1833-1880
- Status
- Unverified Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Brooke Dykman Dockter
- Date
- © 2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the UCSF Archives and Special Collections Repository
UCSF Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco CA 94143-0840 USA
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/ask-an-archivist/