Glendale, California Biographies
Dr.
Kate Shepardson-Black
Dr. Kate Shepardson-Black is a native of Greenfield,
Indiana, a daughter of Otis and Catherine
(Wade), Shepardson. Her father was a
native of Vermont, of old Yankee
ancestry and her mother was born at Lincroft, England. She attended the public schools of Greenfield,
and of Sturgis, Michigan,
her parents having moved to the latter place when she was twelve years old, and
where her father was a hardware merchant for many years. At the age of sixteen she entered Oberlin
College, Oberlin,
Ohio, for a four-year literary course, a
member of the class of 1869. She taught
school for a few terms and then entered the Homeopathic
Hospital College,
Cleveland, Ohio,
for a full four-year course, graduating in medicine in 1874. She practiced medicine at Columbus,
Ohio for four years, during which time she
married Dr. S. S. Black, having become acquainted with him at college. They went to Frederiction,
New Brunswick, where they practiced
medicine for seven years. Dr. Black was
born at Moneton, New Brunswick,
July 8, 1846, a son of
Charles and Margaret (Stedman) Black. He
is a graduate of Putte Medical
College, Cincinnati,
Ohio, having graduated with the class of
1875.
In 1883
they came to California and
bought land in Pomona and in North
Glendale, remaining in California
for a year and a half. Returning to the
East, she went to Frederiction, New
Brunswick, to care for a patient. Later she rejoined her husband in Buffalo,
New York, where he had, in the meantime,
established a practice. In 1888 they
returned to California, she going
to Pasadena where she practiced
medicine for fifteen years. She then
decided to move to their ranch property in North Glendale,
where he was in charge of the ranch on Kenneth Road,
having made his home there since 1893.
Dr. Kate Black is a member of the Southern California Homepathic
Society, and is an honorary member of the Shakespeare Club in Pasadena. She recently built a $10,000.00 residence at 715
Kenneth Road.
From “History of
Glendale and Vicinity”
by John Calvin Sherer. The Glendale Publishing Company, c. 1922 F. M. Broadbooks
and J. C. Sherer. p. 383-384.
