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PIONEER PHYSICIANS
Henry Ridgley Greathouse, MD (1804-1852)
Dr. Greathouse was born in Shelbeyville, Kentucky, graduated from college and studied medicine under Dr. Moses Sheridan. He received his MD in Lexington, Kentucky and returned to a practice in Shelbyville. Dr. Greathouse was visiting his son, Clarence, in San Francisco when he heeded a call for physicians in Sacramento to help with the cholera outbreak where he contacted the disease and died.