Hugh Toland
{{short description|American surgeon}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hugh Toland
| image = HughToland.png
| caption =
| birth_name = Hugh Huger Toland
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1806|04|16}}
| birth_place = Guilder's Creek, Newberry County, South Carolina, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1880|02|27|1806|04|16}}
| death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| burial_place = Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
| nationality =
| alma_mater = Transylvania Medical College
| other_names =
| occupation = Surgeon, academic
| years_active = 1832–1880
| known_for = Founder of the University of California, San Francisco
| notable_works =
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- Mary Goodwin
- Mary America Avery
- Mary Bertha Morrison
}}
}}
Hugh Huger Toland (April 16, 1806 – February 27, 1880) was an American surgeon who founded the Toland Medical College, which later became the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).{{cite web|url=http://history.library.ucsf.edu/toland.html|title=People: Hugh Huger Toland|work=A History of UCSF|publisher=University of California, San Francisco|accessdate=4 July 2017}} He was one of the most successful surgeons in California. He was from South Carolina, and was active in San Francisco.
Biography
Hugh Huger Toland was born on April 16, 1806, in Guilder's Creek, Newberry County, South Carolina.{{Cite journal |last=Gardner |first=Frances Tomlinson |date=1950 |title=The Little Acorn: Hugh Huger Toland, 1806-1880 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44443488 |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=61–69 |jstor=44443488 |issn=0007-5140}} He was the fourth of ten children, his father was planter John Toland (1776–1849), and his mother was Mary Boyd (née Spence) Toland (1778–1858).
Toland received his medical degree in 1828 from Transylvania Medical College, in Lexington, Kentucky. After practicing medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, he arrived in San Francisco with his wife in 1851.
File:Toland Hall building with students, circa 1873, San Francisco.png
In 1864 he established Toland Medical College, building a headquarters at the corner of Stockton and Francisco, across from the San Francisco City and County Hospital. Most of the faculty and students transferred from the earlier Cooper Medical College, which had closed after the death of its founder, Elias Samuel Cooper. The first class graduated in 1865. By 1870, the school had a class of thirty students and forty-five alumni.
That year, Toland sought to affiliate the school to the recently created University of California.{{cite web|url=http://history.library.ucsf.edu/1868_hospitals.html|title=1868–1898 The Origins of the University of California and Affiliated Colleges|work=A History of UCSF|publisher=University of California, San Francisco|accessdate=4 July 2017}} In March 1873, the school became the Medical Department of the University of California.{{cite web|url=http://naffzigersociety.com/our-history/history-of-the-ucsf-department-of-surgery-1860s-to-2005/|title=History of the UCSF Department of Surgery|work=Naffziger Surgical Society|accessdate=4 July 2017}} Initially, he fought to keep his name in the institution, but he eventually gave in, feeling that a public institution should not bear the name of a private person.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Please-don-t-change-San-Francisco-General-s-6176553.php|title=Please don't change San Francisco General's name|last=Heilig|first=Steve|date=April 2, 2015|work=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=4 July 2017}}
Death and legacy
He died of a stroke at age 74, in San Francisco. He was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery,{{Cite web |last=Kastler |first=Deanna L. |date=2010-07-22 |title=Cemeteries |url=http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/c/cemeteries.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722233945/http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/c/cemeteries.html |archive-date=2010-07-22 |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=Encyclopedia of San Francisco}} however his remains were moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California, by 1941.
The main lecture hall at UCSF bears his name. The same lecture hall features many murals, some depicting Hugh Toland himself.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UCSF-to-let-public-see-trove-of-medical-history-6107054.php|title=UCSF to let public see trove of medical history murals|last=Nolte|first=Carl|date=February 28, 2015|work=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=4 July 2017}} Brown and Toland Physicians, a Bay Area medical group, is named after Toland and Charlotte Blake Brown.{{cite web|url=http://www.brownandtoland.com/who-we-are/mission-and-history|title=Mission and History|work=Brown & Toland Physicians|accessdate=4 July 2017}}
References
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External links
- [http://history.library.ucsf.edu/toland.html Biography at UCSF]
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Category:University of California, San Francisco
Category:People from Newberry County, South Carolina