BIO- Pen Pictures
SURNAMES:

 One of the prominent young men of Mountain  View, and a rising member of the medical profession, is Doctor Askam, the  subject of this sketch.  He is a native of Ohio, where his parents  reside.  His father, George Askam, has been a very active man in former  years, and was an extensive dealer in stock, but now is living a more retired  life.  There are six children in the family, four sons and two daughters,  of whom two sons are now practicing physicians of this State.  O. P. Askam  was raised on his father's farm, and received his literary education at the  First Street Normal High School, Louisville Kentucky.  When he was eighteen  years of age he entered upon the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of  his brother, Doctor H. F. Askam.  When he was nineteen years old, he  entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and graduated at that  institution on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1884, after having passed a rigid  examination conducted by members of the Faculty.  Soon afterward he  commenced the practice of his profession, and in course of time came to Mountain  View, where he opened an office and has been one of the most successful  physicians who has practiced in this locality.  

The Doctor is a pleasant  conversationalist, is congenial with his friends, and a citizen of high standing  in the community.  Although a young man, he is rapidly coming to the front  as a physician.  He has acquired a large and extensive practice, and is  destined at no distant day to occupy a prominent position in the medical  profession.
 
Doctor Askam is a member of the Santa Clara Medical Society, is a Knight  Templar, belonging to the Chapter and Commandery of San Jose, and to the Blue  Lodge of Mountain View.  He is also a member of the Eastern Star Lodge, a  social order of Masonic nature, at San Jose, and of the A. O. U. W. of Mountain  View.

{transcribers note---Dr. Askam married Elsie Rengstorff- see Ringstorff bio}

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 516-517 transcribed by Roena Wilson

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