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Sutter's Fort Hospital Doctors
In a History of the Sacramento Medical Center, dated April, 1976, it is stated that, "On October 6, 1849 1949 , Drs. W. Deal and J. S. Martin opened Sutter’s Fort Hospital - within the fort." We know that General Sutter had sold the fort to William Bayly in late 1849 1949 and moved to his Hock farm. Another recent article on Sutter’s Fort says that the hospital was in operation during 1849-1850 in the southeast bastion of the fort. The wording “within the fort” must be to distinguish this from a small, separate adobe building used by Sutter as a hospital. In December, 1849, the Sacramento Union newspaper carried the following ad: Sutter’s Fort Hospital Inside the Fort, formerly conduct
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Dr. James Stansbury Martin, my great grandfather, was also instrumental in setting up the Sutter's Fort hospital. He was also a surgeon for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He left in 1855 to go back to Baltimore and marry my great grandmother. Do you know how the hospital came to be destroyed?
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A correction.: Given the fact that his father, Samuel Baird Fox, MD, had been a ship’s surgeon for much of his career, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was certainly a very logical job opportunity for his oldest son. Should have read Samuel Blair Martin, MD.