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Dr. Charles D. Koch, of Maryville, was born in Clinton, Louisiana, in 1849, son of Gerard and Josephine Koch, natives of Germany. He was reared in his native town until seventeen years of age, receiving an academic educa- tion. In 1867 he went to St. Joseph, where he secured a position in a drug store, at the same time commenced reading medicine. Later he attended the St. Louis Medical College, graduating in March, 1873. He then practiced with his preceptor in St. Joseph for about one year. In September, 1874, he came to Maryville and here established a good practice. In the early eighties his practice had come to be large and his skill was known among the people and also his ability was confirmed by the best medical men of Nodaway county. He is a member of White Cloud Lodge of Odd Fellows. He married Sophia Jensen in 1876; she was a native of Copenhagen, Denmark. One son was born of this union, Charles Adolph. Dr. Koch is still in active practice.
Dr. J. M. Larrabee was another quite prominent physician in the city of Maryville-perhaps more so from the fact that he abandoned the "regular" school of medicine and adopted that of homeopathy. He was a native of Mississippi, born May 30, 1824. a son of Judge Aaron Larrabee. His father was also a large planter and well known in Louisiana, having emigrated there from France when a young man. Young Larrabee attended select schools in New Orleans. after which he took up the study of medicine. In due course of time he entered the Louisiana Medical University, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1846. The same autumn he ac- companied Gen. Winfield Scott's army to Mexico as a physician and surgeon, was at the battle of Vera Cruz, and served through the war with Mexico until its close, then returned to his native state. Upon the opening of the Civil war in this country, his sympathies naturally being with the people of the South, he entered the Confederate army as first regimental surgeon in the army of the Tennessee. Later. he was made division surgeon, serving until the end of the Rebellion. He then located in Adams county, Illinois and practiced his profession for more than seven years, then came to Mis- souri. After a short sojourn in different places, in January, 1879. he became a resident of Maryville. For a quarter of a century the Doctor adhered to the practice of allopathic remedies, but after a careful study and full delibera- tion, he forsook the regular school of medicine and adopted that of homeop- athy. He was a successful practitioner in this part of Missouri, and was con- ceded to be one of the most learned scholars and physicians in Maryville. He was an entertaining and pleasing gentleman. He was a member of the West- ern Academic University of Homeopathy and the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy. He was a Mason in his lodge connections.
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Dr. I. A. Lanning won fame in Nodaway county as an herb doctor. He located at what was later named Lanning's Mills in 1866 and was here possi- bly earlier than this, but certainly was here at that date. He was an odd character, but had considerable knowledge of medicine and adhered strictly to the use of roots and herbs in the treatment of all manner of diseases. He is now deceased.
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Dr. J. S. McAdow was a physician at Barnard in the late seventies and early eighties. But little can be learned of his practice, but it is known that he is deceased.
Dr. E. M. Manning, who practiced at Quitman a long time, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1839, the son of a minister of the Lutheran church, moving to Zanesville in 1839, and from there, in 1856, to Van Buren county, Iowa. Young Manning's youth was spent in Ohio, where his educa- tion was largely obtained. He first commenced the study of the science of medicine with Dr. J. M. Norris, at Birmingham, Iowa, with whom he re- mained two years, then studied at Savannah, Missouri, with Dr. P. Z. Cassel. In July, 1861, he enlisted as a member of the Second Iowa Infantry Regi- ment, but was soon appointed hospital steward and received a commission as surgeon of the Missouri State Militia. He resigned in 1864 and began the practice of medicine at Rochester, Andrew county, Missouri. He grad- uated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1865. In 1868 he moved to Quitman, Nodaway county. He was a man of a family and both he and his estimable wife were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Dr. James Woods Morgan was one of the famous Civil war characters from Missouri and from Nodaway county. He had much to do in connec- tion with putting down the Rebellion and for this reason, if for no other, his name must here have more than a passing notice. The Doctor was born in Shelby county, Indiana, in 1834 and in the autumn of 1841 he accompanied his parents to Missouri ; they settled on a farm tract four miles southwest of Maryville. He received a common school education, having to walk most of the time almost three miles to the pioneer country school house. He com- menced the study of medicine in the later months of 1854 with Drs. J. V. A. Woods and B. G. Ford. He took up the practice of medicine at Graham, this county. July 3, 1859. He continued there until July 3. 1861, the first year of the great Civil war period. He was then driven off by the Confederate soldiers and went to "Dodely's" and bushwhacked in the Home Guards until the provisional government of Missouri was formed and in September of
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that year he was mustered into the six-months service under the call of Governor Gamble. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the State Troops. He served later in the Hax-House Hospital: in 1862 enlisted in the Fourth Regular Regiment of Missouri State Volunteers, commanded by Col. George H. Hall. He was given permission to raise ten regiments of cavalry for scouting purposes. He saw duty in Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. He served as provost on guard duty at St. Joseph and was sent home on sick leave; rejoined his command at Marshfield. Missouri, and in the summer of 1862 was again placed on detached service as assistant provost marshal by Brigadier-General Brown. It became his duty to organize the State Militia into companies, as such officers became staff officers of the commanding general. It was his duty to dispel the rebel sympathizers. All were by him required to take oath of loyalty and give heavy bonds to keep such obligations. His work was so well done that the Confederates looked upon him as a second edition of "Old John Brown." whose soul was then said to be "marching on." His family joined him and remained until he was. on account of illness, compelled to resign. In December, 1862, he was or- dered to join the staff of Major-General Scofield and there was placed in charge of the many rebel prisoners and had to do with their keeping and paroles. By his business ability and loyalty to the Union cause, he saved the United States government hundreds of thousands of dollars. He also blasted the last ray of hope of many a rebel sympathizer. He planned to form a freedman's bureau in Missouri and had all but closed the plans when politics got into the scheme and one bright morning he read in the daily Missouri Statesman, in which "Lieutenant Morgan, the head of the free negro bureau of the tribe of Abraham," caught jessy for being too rigid and for giving "other men's niggers" free papers, etc. This killed the Doctor's chances for wearing the star of a brigadier-general. for W. A. Pile received the coveted appointment on political grounds. He then received appointment as surgeon of a colored regiment, but upon meeting his old colonel he wanted him to join his command at Trading Post. Kansas. He was, however, again taken ill and laid some time at St. Joseph and in August. 1863, reported to Gen. Thomas Ewing at Kansas City, and was again placed on detached duty as judge advocate of a military commission. He was stricken again and wasted to a mere living skeleton, offering his resignation in December and moved back to Graham, Missouri. He went to the same house from which he had been driven by the rebels two and a half years before. In April. 1864. he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Regiment
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of colored troops, to report for duty at Camp William Penn, near the city of Philadelphia. His wife. a relative of Gen. Winfield Scott, was taken ill with quick consumption and died in May, 1864. leaving two small girls, aged six years and a babe. This caused him to decline his commission, and ended his military career. He then resumed his medical practice at Graham ยท and continued there many years. He married again at Burlington Junction in 1865. and by this union reared a large family. He was a member of the Methodist church : belonged to the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders: had been high up in office in these lodges. From 1873 to 1876 he was engaged in the drug business at Graham: was associate editor of the Nodaway l'alley Spy and Graham Headlight. In 1868, when it was believed that the Demo- crats would resist the disfranchising clause of the state constitution, he was commissioned by Governor Fletcher as captain of "Morgan's Nodaway Coun- ty Guards." His was indeed an eventful life.
Dr. Thomas L. Martin, who was a physician at Elmo. this county, in 1883 and later, was born in Missouri, in Livingston county, in 1840. In 1851 he moved to Linn county, Missouri, where he attained manhood. He received a literary education, and at the age of nineteen years commenced the study of medicine, having to teach school a part of each year to meet his expenses. In 1865 he began to practice in Putnam county, and in 1870 located in Mercer county, Missouri, where he continued until 1880. He then moved to Elmo. He attended Keokuk Medical College in Iowa, graduating in 1873. He was a member of the Masonic order and was the head of an interesting family.
Dr. D. C. Myers, physician and druggist at Burlington Junction, was among the pioneers in the medical profession in Nodaway county. He was a native of Ohio, born in Hocking county in 1807. He was there reared and chiefly educated. He was at first a farmer, then began the dry goods business in Perry county, Ohio. There he commenced the study of medicine in 1837. and, after preparing himself. he began the practice in Jackson county, where he continued two years. He moved to Ross county and in 1844 came to Missouri, locating in the "Ohio settlement." near present Burlington Junc- tion. When that place was incorporated he removed thither. In 1881 he engaged in the drug trade also. He was a good doctor and a careful drug- gist and well liked by all within the radius of his home. He has been dead a number of years.
Dr. G. W. May was another physician who located at Burlington Junc- tion and was still practicing there in the eighties.
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Dr. Joseph B. Morrison, well known in Nodaway county, and especially in the vicinity of Maryville, as a physician of more than ordinary skill and success as a lifelong practitioner, was born in 1835 in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He received his education at the private schools and at Unionville Academy, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Newark Academy, Dela- ware, and Coatsville Academy, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He began to study medicine in Lancaster county, and attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1861. He com- menced to practice medicine in his native county and in 1862 was appointed acting surgeon in the United States army, being stationed at Columbian Col- lege Hospital at Washington. He was afterwards commissioned assistant surgeon of United States Volunteers, and in June, 1863, was promoted by President Lincoln and sent to Charleston and made surgeon-in-chief of Vogdes' division. Later he served in the Army of the James until the close of the Civil war. He was in many engagements and was at the time of his discharge medical director of the Twenty-fourth Corps. He was then ap- pointed surgeon-in-chief of the district of Southwest Virginia, where he re- mained until February, 1866, when he was honorably discharged. At the close of the war he located in New York city, and in 1873 came to Mary- ville, where he practiced his profession until in recent years, since which time he has retired to quiet rest after a well-spent professional and military career. He is a writer of more than ordinary worth. He is connected with various fraternal societies, including the Masonic, Loyal Legion, etc. He married, in 1876, Belle Pankey, and they are the parents of two children, Grace L and Paul.
Dr. David Mulholland was a striking character in the medical profession at Maryville and well known throughout Nodaway county in his life time. which was devoted largely to his chosen profession. He was still in active practice in the early eighties. His widow still resides in Maryville.
Dr. McAdom practiced at Guilford, this county, and is spoken of as a man of courage and much professional skill.
Dr. George Nash, as long ago as in the eighties, was one of the fore- most physicians and surgeons in northwestern Missouri. He was born in Hancock county, Indiana, in 1849. He accompanied his parents to Prairie City, Illinois, in 1856 and there he received his primary education. In 1867 he emigrated to St. Joseph, Missouri, and settled there, engaging in the drug business for about three years, there also studying medicine. In 1877 he en- tered the Hospital Medical College of St. Joseph, and attended his first
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course of lectures. He graduated from this institution in February, 1879. During the last two years at St. Joseph he filled the position of resident phy- sician. In the spring of 1879 he came to Maryville, where he soon grew into a lucrative medical practice. He made quite a specialty of surgery. Later, he took further medical courses and learned all of the more modern methods of treatment. His wife frequently assisted him in difficult surgical operations, and that with much courage and skill. The Doctor is still engaged in his practice at Maryville.
Dr. Benjamin Parker was counted among the earlier doctors of the county. He located in Lincoln township and followed farming in connection with his practice, the latter not being sufficient to keep his family.
Dr. S. N. Pike, who came to Maryville in 1878, was a native of New York state, born in 1817. He resided in Schuyler county until he was eleven years of age. At that time his father was afflicted with chronic disease and was being treated by Doctor Wodroth, an Indian physician of the Digger tribe, the medicine chief of the United States. At that time young Pike was chosen to assist the Indians in selecting herbs, roots, etc., for medicine, after which he traveled for sixteen years in the wilderness with the noted chief, thereby becoming acquainted with the uses of and the modes of ad- ministering Indian remedies. He traveled all over the Southern states and territories and in far-away California. He then located in Chemung county, New York, near the town of Elmira. He traveled in various states and cured many chronic cases after the Indian modes of treatment. He resided in Maryville after 1878 for a number of years, and was the direct cause of many cures. He was usually styled the "Cancer Doctor."
Dr. Jacob Rice practiced at Quitman, this county, in the eighties.
Dr. Henry H. Ross. a physician and druggist at Clyde, this county, was born in Lee county, Iowa, in 1843. and when six years of age his parents re- moved to Hancock county, Illinois, where he was reared and educated. In 1861 he entered the Union army and was at the famous battle of Pittsburg Landing (Shiloh). After his service in the Civil war he returned and took up the drug trade, which was ever after his chief business, though he prac- ticed medicine some at the same time. His father was a prominent doctor. Young Ross came to Missouri in 1873, locating in Livingston county, and in 1875 moved to Daviess county, where he lived until August. 1881, when he located in the drug business at Clyde.
Dr. D. A. Sergeant practiced at Hopkins in the eighties, possibly before that date and is still located there. Amos D. Sergeant also practiced there about the same time, but is now deceased.
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Dr. J. E. Scott practiced several years at Maryville and was still thus engaged in the eighties, so says the record of the county.
Dr. W. M. Sammis practiced about twenty-five years ago at Arkoe and had been there several years then, and it is said was a good physician of the old school.
Dr. Perry H. Talbott, who was shot and killed September 18. 1880. by his sons, who paid the death penalty by hanging, lived about seven miles south of Maryville. He was once a very successful physician of Nodaway county. and his death caused great excitement and was the cause of one of the most prolonged and hotly contested criminal cases ever marking a page in the history of the county. The Doctor was born in Fairfield (now Hocking) county, Ohio, February 5, 1827. He received a good education, as he grew to manhood, and was graduated with high honors at the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio. He started out at once for the seeking out of his fortune in the West. In 1852 he joined a company of gold seekers, then crowding West for California. After one year in the far-away Pacific coast country he came back as far as Missouri and in April, 1854, married, in Page county, lowa, Belle McFarland. He was a typical type of Western manhood-a genuine. but intelligent frontiersman. He was fond of cards and knew all the tricks of the game in his day. As a physician his name went far and wide for his ability and wonderful skill. His practice extended far and near. Doctor Talbott and his gray mule were historic figures in the early and later days in Nodaway county. He accumulated much prop- erty and became prominent in local political circles. He represented his dis- trict in the Missouri Legislature in 1856-57. During Civil war days he espoused the Union cause and was surgeon in the Twenty-fifth Missouri Regiment of Volunteers. After the war he espoused politics and had a hankering for a seat in the halls of Congress. He was a candidate before several conventions, but failed of nomination. In 1876 he became prominent among the leaders of the Greenback movement. He possessed an iron will and more than ordinary mental ability. In person, he was tall and rather commanding in his appearance; his hair and beard were black as the wing of a raven. As a friend and neighbor, the Doctor stood high among all who came in close touch with him. As a husband and father, he seemed to lack affection, and his home was one of discord. His children grew up neglected as to moral training. His house was an arsenal for small firearms and the children were familiar with their use. The crime of his own flesh and blood is written of elsewhere in this work.
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Dr. W. H. Woodward practiced at Graham, this county, away back in the eighties. But little can be learned at this date concerning his practice.
Dr. J. H. Woodward, who practiced at the town of Dawson, this county, ranked, in his day, among the best physicians in Nodaway county. He was born in Lee county, Virginia, in 1848. When a small boy his parents re- moved to Daviess county, Missouri, later locating in Harrison county, where he was reared. He then began the study of medicine in the autumn of 1870, graduating in 1875 from the Cincinnati Medical College. He immediately took up the practice of his profession in Bourbon county, Kentucky, continu- ing there until the fall of 1879, when he returned to Missouri. He located in Dawson. this county, in 1881.
Drs. D. C. and M. H. Wilson were among the physicians in Maryville. commencing their practice here in 1879. Dr. D. C. Wilson was born in Stephenson county, Illinois, in 1839 and attended school at Mt. Carroll. He also attended a commercial school at Chicago and St. Louis. In 1855 his parents moved to Chatfield, Minnesota, and when eighteen years of age he commenced his career as a civil engineer, continuing until 1861, and in the spring of that year he enlisted as a member of a Minnesota volunteer com- pany, remaining in service for three years. After his war career he went to California and entered a medical college at San Francisco, from which he graduated in 1873, then moved to Indiana. He practiced medicine in various states in the Union, including Indiana. Illinois. Tennessee and in Salt Lake, Utah, making a specialty of the eye, in which line he was really an adept. In 1878 he was in Memphis, during the yellow fever rage, rendering valuable medical assistance. He located in Maryville, Missouri, in 1879. His brother, M. H. Wilson, also served in the Union cause and graduated in medicine and became his brother's partner at Maryville.
Dr. William M. Wallis, who, aside from Dr. J. W. Dean, has prac- ticed medicine in Nodaway county longer than any other physician and today stands at the head of the profession in many ways, is, indeed. an honor to the medical profession of Missouri. He was born in New York state in 1848, his birthplace being in Genesee county. He having completed his liter- ary education. chose medicine as his profession and in the fall of 1867, tak- ing three courses of lectures at the University of Buffalo. New York, during the winters of 1868-69 and 1870, receiving his diploma in February, 1871. He began his practice in Alabama, in his native county. He soon after came West and located in Nodaway county, settling at old Xenia in September, 1871. In June, 1872, he changed location and went to the new town site of Pickering and became a pioneer of the place. He practiced in a large domain and at first went on horseback and met with many privations such as
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all early country accommodations afford. He went many miles, and never stopped for the roads or inclement weather. He performed many difficult surgical operations, far away from other doctors, who, had they been near enough, he would have gladly called in to assist him. He has helped usher into the world two generations of children in this county. He frequently meets men and women whose parents he knew in their infancy. In 1901 he removed to Maryville where he still practices in company with his sons. (See biographical volume for sketch.)
Others whose names should not be forgotten or omitted here are : Doctor Rose, of Pickering: Doctor Charles, deceased, of Maryville: Doctor Reed. deceased, of Pickering: Doctor Humphry, of Parnell: Doctor Mckinley. now of St. Joseph, Missouri. There may have been several others who prac- ticed the healing art within this county, in days gone by, but by reason of no record having been kept, may have been forgotten with the rush of years, but who are not intentionally omitted.
PRESENT-DAY PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY.
The following is supposed to be a complete list of all the practicing physicians in Nodaway county at the commencement of 1910. Where not otherwise noted. all are of the regular allopathic school. Sketches of many of these physicians will be found in the biographical volume of this work :
J. W. Dean. L. E. Dean. W. M. Wallis. Sr., W. M. Wallis, Jr., F. C. Wallis, J. H. Todd, F. R. Anthony, A. T. Fisher, G. A. Nash, A. B. Allen. C D. Koch, J. B. Morrison, Dr. Wilson, K. C. Cummins, Vilas Martin (homeo- path). F. M. Martin (homeopath). Philips & Philips (osteopaths), at Mary- ville : D. A. Sergeant, H. C. Goodson and C. W. Kirk, at Hopkins; E. L. Crossan and W. B. Heryford, at Pickering: W. T. Stuckle, at Clyde; F. M. Ryan, at Quitman : M. M. Pollard and A. J. Larrabee, at Barnard : J. E. Pierpont, at Skidmore: Dr. Gaugh, W. E. Wallace and C. G. Dean, at Burl- ington Junction : H. S. Dowell, at Clearmont ; A. D. Barnett and J. M. Mc- Clanahan, at Guilford: J. H. Wells and Dr. Kestler, at Ravenwood; T. J. Hunterson and Hiram Day, at Parnell: D. G. Smith, at Arkoe: G. John, at Wilcox : R. E. Ferguson, at Elmo.
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
A county medical society was formed here about 1870 and held several meetings, but for lack of harmony-"the fee bill" hindering a more legiti- mate work-it went the way of all the earth! Then the society was reorgan- ized in 1878. and is still in existence, but not what it might be made. At
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present it is holding "open meetings" and the public are invited to attend their sessions. If thus continued, much mutual good will be derived from their deliberations. Doctor Fisher, the present secretary, is an avowed ad- vocate of this theory-of having both closed and open meetings. The pres- ent society has about forty members, but not nearly so many are regular at- tendants.
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