Stephen Wythe, the younger of two sons of Dr. William Thomas and Laura Belle Wythe, was born in San Francisco, December 16, 1874, and died at Oakland, December 5, 1923. He was 49. Stephen attended Oakland High School, graduating in 1892. He was graduated from the Cooper Medical College of the University of the Pacific (now a part of Stanford University) in 1895. During the Spanish-American war Stephen was a contract surgeon in the United States army, and a part of the time in the transport service to the Philippines. He became a specialist on the eye, ear, nose and throat, and had a large clientele in that field in Oakland. He also taught in the Oakland College of Medicine and assisted in the large clinic there, later becoming a member of the staff of the Merritt Hospital at Oakland and physician to the Deaf and Blind School at Berkeley. During World War I he was in charge of his specialty at the Bethlehem Steel Company Clinic in Alameda.

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