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BENJAMIN MAXWELL MARSHALL, M. D. - The association of Dr. Marshall with the professional life of Eureka commenced
during the fall of 1903 and has continued uninterruptedly up to the present time, his interests not being limited
to private professional practice, but including also a vital and important connection with hospital work. It is
perhaps not too much to say that Eureka is unsurpassed in the character of its hospitals. Considering the size
of the place, it affords a hospital service that is exceptionally up to date and thorough, and the physicians identified
with these institutions are men of wide professional knowledge and the most earnest devotion to their chosen work.
In this respect Dr. Marshall is surpassed by none, as evidenced not only by his able service as county physician
and as surgeon at the county hospital, but also through his splendid service for many years as chief surgeon of
the Union Labor hospital, an institution founded on the cooperative plan by the Union Labor bodies of Humboldt
county. The Doctor himself took a prominent part in the founding of the hospital and the building, erected in 1905,
reflects in its modern appointments his determination to secure for it a complete equipment, with facilities for
operations of every character. A board of directors comprising members of the various unions in the county maintains
a close supervision of the hospital. There is a capacity of fifty beds and it is not limited to its own members
or their families, but is open to the public in general.
Descended from a long line of Scotch ancestry, the Doctor himself is a native of Ardpatrick, Argyleshire, Scotland,
born November 26, 1875. At the age of six years he was brought to America by his parents, who settled in Canada
during 1881 and later sent him to the public schools of that country. Ambitious to gain a broad educational opportunity
that would prepare him for service in the world, he took a complete course of study in the classics at Westminster
College in British Columbia, an institution affiliated with the famous Toronto University. After having graduated
from that college he took up the study of medicine, which he prosecuted with the diligence characteristic of him
in every department of mental research. During 1902 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons
at San Francisco, and afterward he was engaged as assistant to A. W. Morton, M. D., in the Morton hospital, San
Francisco. Meanwhile he had gained considerable added experience through service as house physician in the City
and County hospital and as an assistant to the chair of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Such
advantages proved of inestimable assistance to him when he embarked in private practice and enabled him to diagnose
diseases with promptness and accuracy. For five years he was surgeon at the Humboldt county general hospital in
Eureka, where also he has given most able service as chief surgeon of the Union Labor hospital. So engrossed has
he been in professional work that it would not be expected of him to give active participation to the fraternities,
yet we find him prominent in the Orders of Elks, Eagles, Red Men and Knights of Pythias, while at the same time
he is deeply interested in the work of the Humboldt Club and has aided its enterprises to the extent of his time
and influence. By his marriage to Miss Josephine Pearson, a native of New Brunswick, he has two sons, Benjamin
Maxwell, Jr., and Joseph W. Personally he is popular in the community which his character and professional ability
are helping to upbuild. A friend of the public schools, good roads movements and other well known local projects,
his residence in Eureka has tended to the widening of its prospects and the enhancing of its opportunities.
From:
History of Humboldt County, California
With a Biographical Sketches
History by Leigh H. Irving
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California 1915
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