John Baptist de Faria

John Baptist de Faria was born in 1871, in Portugal. He graduated from the School of Medicine and Surgery, Lisbon, 1896, and interned at the Maternity and Hospital for Women . Following his hospital work there, he served on the staffs of civil and military hospitals in the Portuguese possessions of Cape Verde and Guinea in Africa. Certainly, he had returned to Honolulu and was in practice by 1904 when he became a member of the Hawaiian Territorial Medical Society. During his years in Honolulu he was the originator and chief promoter of A Pátria, a Portuguese society whose objects were financial benefit, social intercourse, and the education of its members.

Leaving the Islands in August, 1905, the doctor set out on the first leg of a trip which was to take him to Portugal, France and Germany to study and visit medical institutions. On his return he located in Oakland, California, where he practiced for a number of years. The 1923 Medical Directory lists him as still living in Oakland, but after that he is not listed and nothing further is known about him.