Andrew Hallidie (physician)

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Sir Andrew Hallidie (? – ?) was the royal physician to King William IV and to Queen Victoria.

Sir Andrew's nephew, Andrew Smith Hallidie, was the promoter of the world's first practical cable car system, the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco.

[edit] References

• Edgar Myron Kahn (1940). California Historical Society Quarterly - Andrew Smith Hallidie. Retrieved May 27, 2005.