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Alexander Butler Nixon, MD (1820-1889)
Three years after his graduation from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, Dr. Nixon traveled overland in 1849 from his home in Hamilton, Ohio, to Coloma, California, in search of gold. His medical practice in Sacramento began in 1852 after returning to Ohio to pick up his family. He was active in medical, civic, political and religious organizations, serving as Sacramento’s State Senator from 1862-1863.