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• v» *pickMlittlfewrChi,minbukfatli° boysendedvinter.Father and Son Prominent Physiciansved in/nship rth of to theU, whofarmto beng inWi:erssqurosimolt;* V-li'Y i r AbfcvV X3 4WDO to-k andhouse.d res-r pic-a site s andtreestheakingationlr lt;harlt s Shipman rbrkeDIn 1857 he moved to Fairfield and operated a drug store and practiced his profession until his death in 1882. He was the medical member of a commission appointed bv Gov. Grimes to study eastern institutions and establish the first insane hospital in Iowa. The hospital was located at Mt. Pleasant m 1850A strong believer in prohibition,he never sold alcohol in his tfrug ’ »re. refusing to pis tit bv tie sale of liquor or anything which he feltmight injure his customers.He was a great admirer of Emerson and an avid readerDr. Junes Frederic; Clarke waDr C. S. Clarke was born at1 Marietta. Ohio in 1814. studied medicine 111 Cincinnati and after active practice in Kentucky and another course in Cincinnati he; came to Mt. Pleasant in 1843, his! practice then extending into Jef-| ferson countv.Two outstanding physicians of two generations were Dr. Charles Shipman Clarke and his son, Dr.! James Frederic Clarke.field F bruary |h#uHe attended Parsons College, andwas graduated with a B S. degree from the University of Iowa in 1886 and with an M. A. degree in 1889. He graduated from the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 and spent two years in interneship in the Philadelphia General Hospital. Post graduate work was taken at John Hopkins University, and the University of Gottingen in Germany••‘JBr ■and also attended several seasons at the New York Post Graduate school. He received an honorary degree of doctor of science from Parsons College in 1933.He served in the Spanish-Ameri-can War as major and surgeon for the 49th Iowa infantry with detached sendee In charge of medical wards of the 2nd Division hospital of the 7th Army Corps m Florida and Cuba While in Florida, Dr. Clarke obtained the first employment of trained female nurses inthe U S. Army field h spirals He organized Unit R for World War I and served as major and lieutenant colonel in France in Base hospital No 32 at Contrexville and Red Cross hospital No h inlr. James Frederic ( larke
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1946
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