Dr. John Towsend
Born in Pennsylvania, died in San Jose
Dec. 8, 1850
A leader of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy
Party of 1844
First American M.D. to settle in California
Served as physician, alcalde, and councilman in San Francisco before moving to a farm north of San Jose. He and his wife contacted cholera and died while attending patients in the 1850 epidemic.
Marker is on Curtner Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
