Washington Figures in Iowa Medical History Highlighted
Bruce Cowden reviews One Hundred Years of Iowa Medicine, noting Washington county doctors among early Iowa pioneers. The piece traces 17th and 18th century exploration, early settler physicians in Keokuk, Burlington, Muscatine, and Dubuque, and the rise of the Iowa State Medical Society. It cites Dr. Horace Carley in Brighton, and names several Washington area physicians including Dr. G H Stone and Dr. W H Rousseau.
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Washington County
Horace Carley
Brighton
G. H. Stone
Washington
W. H. Rousseau
William McClelland
J. D. Miles
W. F. Rodman
Darius Scofield
Isaac Crawford
Crawfordsville
H. C. Hull
H.C. Hull
Pioneering Dr McClelland and Politician Dr Miles
Dr McClelland, a Washington physician for over five decades, died in 1902. Dr Miles was active in politics, serving two terms in the county lower house and two terms in the state senate, and he was a Republican nominee for lieutenant governor.
Early Iowa Doctors and the State Medical Society Story
The piece traces 19th and early 20th century medical roots in Washington County Iowa, noting 1873 1874 milestones, the formation of the Iowa State Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1850 led by John N. Sanford, presidential figures like Dr. Scofield and Dr. Maxwell, and the evolution of local medical groups and firsts in health services. It highlights 230 county physicians over 190 years and Keokuk as a former medical education center.
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State Medical Society
Burlington
John N. Sanford
Farmington
Keokuk
Iowa
Washington
Iowa State Medical and Chirurgical Society
Keokuk medical colleges history and county hospital notes
The excerpt traces Keokuk’s medical schools from 1850 to 1908 including the College of Physicians and Surgeons 1850 to 1899, Keokuk Medical College 1853 1860 and 1890 1908, and notes there is now one medical college in town part of the State University of Iowa. It highlights Dr Boice and a chapter on Iowa hospitals with the 1912 Washington county hospital as a pioneer, plus hospital photos from dedication and later additions.
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Iowa
W. L. Bierring
Des Moines
Father Marquette
Louis Joliet
Mississippi
Here
Big River
Louisa County
Dubuque
Towa
S. C. Muir
Keokuk
Isaac Galland
Ft. Madison
Columbus City
Muscatine
Enos Lowe
Burlington
David L McGugin
Dr. McClelland
Dr. Miles
Washington County
Scofield
College of Physicians and Surgeons At
Boice
Medical College
Washington County Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bruce Cowden
Iowa State Medical Society
C. A. Boice
State Society
Davenport
Michigan
Wisconsin Territory
Bierring
James M. Robertson
America
Americ
J. C. Boice
Dr. Stone
Hiram
William
Wellman
T. J. Maxwell
Southeast Iowa Medical Society
Washington County Society
FOX
Robert Rockwell
Valentine Perkins
Republic
T.R. Phillips
West Side Square
Congress
You
the Man Next Door
Great
United States Congress
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange Veterans of Foreign Wars
National Conference of Catholic Charities
American Protestant Hospital Association
American Legion National Association of Small Business Men
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Retail Grocers
National Retail Dry Goods Association
American Bar Association
American Medical Association
North LA Salle Street
Chicago
Illinois
Washington County Medical Association
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