HENRY
HULME WARBURTON, M.D.
To California in 1847
Doctor
Warburtons Office
BIO-Pen Pictures-
SURNAMES: LONG, PENNEL, BLACKMAN
Henry Hulme Warburton, M. D., one of the early pioneers of Santa Clara,
was born in Staffordshire, England, May 23, 1819. He is a son of John
Warburton, M. D., under whose tuition he prepared himself for the
practice of medicine. He received his literary education at an endowed
school at Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England. At the age of twenty-two he
entered the London Hospital Medical Institute, where he took a full
course of lectures, after which he practiced with his father until
June, 1844, when he came to America, arriving at New York City July 9
following. He remained in New York practicing medicine until the autumn
of 1845, when he went to New London, Connecticut, and there embarked as
surgeon in the whaling vessel Corea, under Capt. Benjamin
Hemstead. He cruised on the northwest coast of North America, the coast
of New Zealand, and also visited the Sandwich Islands a number of
times. At San Francisco, in 1847, he resigned his commission as surgeon
of the vessel, and after visiting various gold diggings he located, in
1848, at Santa Clara, at that time a small Catholic mission. The Doctor
is widely known as a skillful physician, and, with the exception of
several months spent in visiting friends and relatives in England in
1870, he has never left his field of practice, which extends over a
large portion of California and parts of Oregon and Washington
Territory.
In 1855 he was married to Mrs. Catherine Pennel, nee Long, a daughter
of Peter and Hilah Long. There were born to them seven children, two of
which died in infancy. Those living are: Caroline Astoria, Ellen Ann,
John Garrett(see marriage record
below), Charles Pennington, and Henry Luke. They also raised one
adopted daughter, Sarah Isabella, wife of R. C. Blackman, of San
Francisco.
The Doctor and his family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he is an Odd Fellow, being one of the original members of
Santa Clara Lodge, No. 52, of Santa Clara.
SOURCE: Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H.S.
Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. page 241-242 Transcribed by Carol Lackey
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WARBURTON, JOHN GARRETT
Title: Marriage License File
Author:
Location: San Jose Historical Museum
Call #:
Source: Source Date: 8/8/1886
Page: Volume:
Note: Bride: HOWARD, JENNIE
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SANTA CLARA COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY