SURNAMES:  DECKER, GIBBINS, KELLAR
After a successful career in the medical profession, as a specialist in diseases of the ear, nose and throat, Dr. Henry A. Alderton retired and has since devoted himself to the study of painting.  Born in New York City, December 28, 1863, he attended the public school of his native city and Brooklyn Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute, where he prepared to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons, this being the medical department of Columbia University. He graduated in 1885 and then spent a years as an internee at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, N. J.

Taking up the general practice of medicine at Brooklyn, N. Y., Dr. Alderton later went abroad to study, taking special work on the ear, nose and throat at the University of Berlin in 1890-91, and on his return to Brooklyn, he specialized in theses subjects, continuing there  until 1912.  He taught in the earlier years at the New York Post-Graduate College and the  New York Polyclinic and later at the Long Island Medical College; was aural surgeon to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, Kingston Avenue (contagious disease) Hospital, Kings County Hospital, Bushwick and East Brooklyn Hospital, and Nassau County Hospital. He was formerly a member of the Hamilton Crescent, and Church Club in Brooklyn.,  Also of the American Otological, American otological, Phinological and Laryngological and of the New York Otological Societies; and is, at present, an honorary member of the New York Otological Society.  Since coming to California in 1912, he has studied painting under C. P Townsley, Richard Miller, Manheim and Armin Hansen, after preliminary work at the San Francisco Institute of Art.  The year 1829-21 was spent in Spain and Portugal and Dr. Alderton returned with many original sketches from which he is now working.

In 1885 Dr. Alderton was married to Miss Marion S. Decker in Brooklyn, N.Y., a native of that state and a descendant of families of that state on both paternal and maternal sides.  Dr. Alderton's father , Henry Alderton, was a native of Sussex, England, and his mother, Mary Amelia Gibbins, was born in New York of English and French ancestry.  In the Alderton famiy there are three children:  Dorothy M., married to Herbert A. Kellar, director of the McCormick Agricultural Library in Chicago;  Barbara, an assistant a the Stanford University Library and Henry A., Jr., at presnt engaged in civil enginnering and formerly second lieutenant in the late war.  All are graduates of Stanford University.  The family make their home at 915 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, where Dr. Alderton has also his studio.

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922.
page 765-766

PALO ALTO