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A Doctor Comes to California The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-47. John S Griffin
A Doctor Comes to California  The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-47




With Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-47. Edited When Kearny arrived in California he found Commodore Robert Field that of assistant surgeon John S. Griffin. Of this through the generosity of Mrs. John Griffin Johnston, widow of Dr. Griffin's have all come to the conclusion, are great rascals, and are not burthened. A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-47 [John S. Griffin, George Ames, George D. Lyman] He was assigned to Washington, D.C., in 1853 and resigned from the service in 1854. The California Historical Society in 1944 published Griffin's diary relating his wartime experiences, under the title A Doctor Comes to California The Diary of John S. Griffin, M.D., 1846 1847. L.A.'s First Suburb in 1873 Dr. John S. Griffin (one of the city's first medical doctors), his Albert Sydney Johnston) and former California Gov. John Downey out of the 2,000 acres of sheep pasture Griffin and another battlefield marker now stands, Surgeon John Griffin tended to 17 injured men. At 6:45 a.m., when Kearny retook command and ordered the men to move out, On foot, Emory, Turner, and several dragoons raced toward the hill. Griffin, John S., M.D., A Doctor Comes to California (California Historical ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES. DR. JOHN STROTHER GRIFFIN " freath Has claimed ln the person of Dr. John S. Griffin, who expired yesterday morning at his residence In 1840 Dr. Griffin entered the United States army as assistant surgeon, He came to California 1n 1546 with the United States expeditionary forces Through a low mist she made out ghostlike figures coming down the narrow mountain pass. General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West had straggled 2000 The day before in the Ballena Valley, 101 wet to the skin dragoons Dr. John S. Griffin rode into gunfire on a jaded mule: the balls









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