Short Biography of Letitia S. Reid

Letitia Kean Oakes, D. C. and N. D., is established in the successful practice of her profession in the City of San Francisco, with office headquarters at 1109 Market Street, and her personality and technical ability and skill mark her as one of the representative woman physicians and surgeons of her native state. She was born and reared in California and is a representative of bonored pioneer families of this state, her mother having been the first American white child to be born within the borders of California, and her father having, as a young man, come from Indiana to California in 1851.

Doctor Oakes, whose maiden name was Letitia Scott Reid, was born in Monterey County, California, January 26, 1879, and is a daughter of Robert and Anne Elizabeth (Gregson) Reid. Her maternal grandfather, James Gregson, came to California in 1845, and on other pages of this publication will be found a review of his career and of the family history, so that a repetition of the interesting and historical data is not here demanded.

After having profited by the advantages of the public schools of Watsonville and San Jose Doctor Oakes continued her studies in the California State Teachers College in the City of Santa Barbara and later on she took special work at the University of California. Thereafter she gave nine years of characteristically loyal and constructive service as supervisor of the department of home economics in the public schools of San Francisco. She then resigned this position to initiate her study of chiropractic, in conformity with her well formulated ambition. In 1920 she was graduated in chiropracty, and after thus receiving her degree she opened her office in San Francisco, where her practice has since continued one of successful cumulative and representative order, its scope and importance giving evidence of the high communal estimate placed upon her personally and as a skilled chiropractor whose services are ever in consonance with the highest ethical code of her profession. The Doctor has insistently kept pace with the advances made in chiropractic science, has done effective post-graduate work in the drugless schools of California, the while she constantly avails herself of the best in the standard and periodical literature of her profession.

Source: "California and Californians. Vol. IV" ¹¹⁹³