Levi Cooper Lane
| Levi Cooper Lane | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 9, 1828 Somerville, Ohio |
| Died | February 9, 1902 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions |
United States Navy College of the Pacific Toland Medical College Cooper Medical College |
| Alma mater |
Farmer's College Union Theological Seminary Jefferson Medical College |
Levi Cooper Lane (May 9, 1828 – February 9, 1902) was a physician and surgeon in San Francisco in the 1800s. He established the Cooper Medical College, forerunner to the Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as laying the groundwork for Stanford's medical library and the Stanford School of Nursing. The University's medical library is still named Lane Medical Library in his honor.
Lane was born in Somerville, Ohio on May 9, 1828. He attended Farmer's College near Cincinnati and received an MA degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
He received a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1851. He interned for four years and then served in the U.S. Navy as an Assistant Surgeon from 1855 to 1859.
He then settled in San Francisco, where his uncle, Elias Samuel Cooper, also a physician, had just established the first medical college on the West Coast of the United States in 1858. The medical school was chartered by the College of the Pacific (now the University of the Pacific). It was called the Medical Department of the College of the Pacific and was staffed entirely by local practicing physicians. Cooper served as president and chief surgeon; Lane became a faculty member.
After Cooper's death in 1862, the Medical Department ceased operation. Lane and other faculty members began teaching at the newly established Toland Medical College (later the University of California, San Francisco) instead.
Lane wanted to revive his uncle's college and in 1870 he succeeded in reopening it. He served as president and recruited some of Cooper's former faculty members as instructors. The school was affiliated with University College, later the San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the name was changed to the Medical College of the Pacific.
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