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Dr. Chase was graduated from the Geneseo College, New
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York, with the class of 1882. He later studied medicine in New York City, where he had rare clinical advantages at several hos- pitals, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Minnesota in 1889, being valedictorian of his class and prosector. On April 22, 1889, he located at Eau Claire, where he has since been in the active and successful practice of his pro- fession. Dr. Chase is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the Eau Claire County Medical Society. He is a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner, also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Her- mann, being past dictator and representative of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin of the last named order. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is medical examiner for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company of New Jersey.
The Chase family is noted for its longevity and for their pref- erenee for the medical profession, the majority of the male mem- bers of the family being disciples of Esenlapins. Dr. Chase is a cousin of Drs. Dwight and Henry Day, who successfully practiced their profession in Eau Claire for over thirty years. Dr. Chase's father died in Eau Claire at the residence of our subject in 1903 at the age of ninety-four years.
Dr. Chase has large real estate holdings in Eau Claire. Ile was married June 1, 1908, to Belle, daughter of Lucins V. and Belle (Burdette) Ripley, of Eau Claire.
In addition to the many other prominent positions filled by Dr. Chase, he served as health physician for the city of Eau Claire nine years.
Arthur L. Payne, M. D. Standing prominent among the med- ical profession of Eau Claire is Dr. A. L. Payne, specialist in dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. IIe was born in Marietta, Ohio, January 16, 1866, the son of Wallace M. and Mary E. (Gates) Payne. The doctor received his preliminary edneation at the Marietta Academy, and in 1887 matriculated with the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the Ohio Medical College, which is now known as the med- ical department of the University of Cincinnati in 1890. He began his practice in the city of Dayton the same year, remaining there until 1899, during which time he took up the specialty of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he had made a special study. In the year 1899 he moved to Eau Claire and has since been engaged in a successful practice.
On October 8, 1890, Dr. Payne was married to Nellie R.
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Beachem, daughter of T. W. and Samantha (Terry) Beachem, of Dayton, Ohio, and they are the parents of one son-Norman B. Dr. Payne ranks among the leading specialists in Northwestern Wisconsin, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of the com- munity generally. He is a member of the Eau Claire County Medical Society, the Northwestern District of Wisconsin Med- ical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Autolaryngology, the College of Surgeons of America and the Clinical College of Surgeons.
Dr. Payne is also prominent in fraternal and benevolent socie- ties, being a member of Dayton Lodge No. 147, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Eau Claire Chapter No. 36, R. A. M .; Eau Claire Commandery and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
William O. Seemann, M. D., Eau Claire, the well known spe- cialist in chronic disease, is the son of Hans and Mary (Peterson) Seeman, both natives of Schleswig, Holstein, Germany, who emi- grated to the United States in 1853. Upon arriving in this coun- try they settled in Lyons, Iowa, where the father engaged in farm- ing and made that his home until 1884, when he moved to South Dakota, having previously purchased a tract of valuable farming land there, making that his home until his death.
Dr. Seeman was born in Lyons, Iowa, August 6, 1870, receiv- ing his preliminary education in the public schools of Sutherland, Iowa. In 1892 he entered the medical department of the State University at Iowa City, and was graduated with the class of 1895, receiving his degree of M. D. Following his graduation lie served one year as interne in the hospital connected with the university, then went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he had charge of his brother's practice for one year. In 1897 he came to Eau Claire and has sinee been in aetive practice here. The doctor ranks among the foremost physicians of the city, and enjoys the eon- fidence of a large elientele.
On September 6, 1898, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth (Herd) Weis, of Dubuque, Iowa, and they are the parents of two children- Lester W. and Mary E. The doctor is a member of the Eau Claire County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a 32nd degree Mason.
Edward S. Hayes, M. D., one of the prominent physicians of Eau Claire, was born in Franklin county, Maine, December 27,
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1856, a son of Charles and Emma (Bullen) Hayes, both natives of Maine. Edward S. received his preliminary education in the public schools of Maine and prepared for college at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, that state. He attended Amherst College one year-1877 and 1878-and then entered the medical department of Harvard University, graduating from the latter in 1881. He then spent one year as interne in the hospital at Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1883 located at Eau Claire, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of medi- cine and has attained to a place of prominence among the med- ical profession.
On June 1, 1887, Dr. Hayes married Miss Miriam, daughter of Orrin H. and Cornelia (Pierce) Ingram, pioneer of Eau Claire, and among her most highly respected citizens (sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume). Dr. and Mrs. Hayes have two children : Ruth I. and Edmund.
Dr. Hayes is a member of the Eau Claire Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation, and has been a member of the State Board of Health since 1909. Fraternally he is a member of Eau Claire No. 112, A. F. and A. M., and politically is a republican.
Eugene E. Tupper, physician and surgeon, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was born in Sheboygan Falls, this state, January 15, 1871, the son of George L. and Sarah (White) Tupper. His paternal grandfather, Eben Tupper, a native of New Hampshire, was one of the first settlers in Sheboygan county, where he cleared up and improved a farm of 250 acres and was the first man to own a team of horses in that county. The doctor's maternal grandfather was Rand B. White, a native of New York state, who was also a pioneer of Sheboygan county. He was a carriage maker by trade and also a physician, having been graduated from a medical college in the state of New York.
Dr. Tupper spent his boyhood in Sheboygan Falls, receiving his primary education in the public schools, which was supple- mented with a course at the Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, and the University of Chicago. He entered the medical depart- ment of the Illinois University in Chicago, and was graduated with the class of 1905. The same year he began his practice at Hingham, Sheboygan county, remaining there until 1908, when he located in Eau Claire, and has since remained here in the active and successful practice of his profession.
On November 1, 1900, Dr. Tupper married Rose D., danghter of Angustus D. and Celia (Doane) Bemis, of Plymouth, Wiscon-
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sin. Dr. Tupper is one of the foremost men of his profession, in which he is an efficient and conscientious worker, and enjoys the confidence of the community. Ile is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association, the West Wisconsin District Medieal Society, the Eau Claire County Medical Society, of which he has served as secretary. Also a member of the Wisconsin State Surgical Society. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Baptist church.
John Van Reed Lyman, M. D. Of the galaxy of medieal men for which this part of the state of Wiseonsin has gained no little fame, is to be found in the front rank, if not in the very van, the gentleman whose name is here recorded. Ile was born in North Pepin, Wis., January 13, 1857, a son of Reverend Timothy and Valleria (Reinhart) Lyman. The first known ancestor of the Lyman family was Thomas Lyman, who lived in England in 1275. Dr. Lyman's first ancestor in America was Richard Lyman, who came from Norton, Mandeville, Parish of Ongar, county of Essex, England, in 1631, settling at Charleston, Mass. Twenty- six members of the fifth and sixth generations in America fought for independence in the war of the revolution. The generations in line of descent to our subject from Richard, were John, Moses, Moses, Elias, Timothy, Timothy, Timothy, and Timothy, Tim- othy III, grandfather of our subject, married Experience Bard- well and was a resident of Chester, Mass., where he died at the age of 52 years. Timothy, father of Dr. Lyman, was born August 28, 1819, graduated from Amhurst College in 1844, and was or- dained to the Congregational ministry in 1850. For fifteen years he was engaged in missionary work in the west and south. Ile was installed pastor of a church in Killingworth, Conn., in 1866, serving as active pastor of a church at Southwick, Mass., in 1869, and died at the age of 67 years at Bar Ilarbor, Maine. He was married to Valeria Van Reed Reinhart, June 15, 1854, and they had two sons, William Bardwell, M. D., a graduate of Rush Med- ical College, Chicago, in the class of 1880, located in Eau Claire in 1882, where he became prominent in his profession, and is now actively engaged in practice in Boise City, Idaho, and our subject.
Dr. J. V. R. Lyman, second son and subject of this review, received an academic education at Fort Madison, Iowa, gradu- ating therefrom in 1873. Ile then engaged in mereantile pursuits until 1876, when he began the study of medieine and later was appointed hospital steward in the Ft. Madison, Iowa, penitentiary, where he enjoyed rare clinical advantages. In 1877 he attended the St. Louis Medical College and the following two years he
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spent at the Rush Medical College in Chieago, where he was grad- uated in 1880. He located in Eau Claire the same year, where he has since been engaged in active and successful praetiee of his profession, making a specialty of surgery and gynecology, de- voting considerable time to this specialty. In the meantime, he made a trip to Europe, spending some time in Berlin, where he took advanced instructions and now stands at the head of his profession in Eau Claire eounty. He is a member of the Amer- iean Medical Association and the Wiseonsin State and Eau Claire County Medieal Societies.
Dr. Lyman was married June 7, 1881, to Maud, daughter of W. L. and Sarah (Williams) Kepler, pioneers of Eau Claire. To this union were born two children, John Van Reed, Jr., who is connected with the Press of Minneapolis, and Valeria, deeeased.
The present wife of Dr. Lyman was Mary, daughter of Otis C. and Harriet (Disbro) Sylvester, of Minneapolis, to whom he was married August 27, 1909, and by her has one son, Richard Van Reed.
Dr. Lyman is a 32nd degree Mason, and in politics a Repub- lican. A half-brother, Timothy Fifth, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is now a student of medicine in the medieal depart- ment of Leland Stanford University in California, and a half- sister, Helen M., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, is a teacher in the high school of Eau Claire.
James Bell Goddard, M. D.,# was born in Lena, Stephenson county, Illinois, October 25, 1856. Ilis parents, William R. and Catherine (Bell) Goddard, were natives of Vermont and Penn- sylvania respectively. His paternal grandfather was a native of Vermont and one of the pioneers of Stephenson eounty, Illi- nois, and by occupation a farmer. He retired with a competeney and died at the age of 92 years. Ilis maternal grandfather, William Bell, was a native of Pennsylvania and made his home near Altoona. William R. Goddard, father of the doetor, came to Illinois with his parents when a boy and was a farmer by occupation. Ile fought in the Mexican war and when the eivil war broke out raised a company at Lena and Freeport. Entering the service, he was promoted to Major of the 15th Illinois Regi- ment and served under General Grant and was killed in the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862. His wife, with her brother, Robert Bell, emigrated to Illinois via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by boat. Landing at Savannah, Ill., they traveled overland by teams to Stephenson county and there joined an elder brother for whom she kept house until her marriage.
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Dr. Goddard was reared on a farm, received his education in the public schools at Lena, Ill., and Knox College at Galesburg, from which he graduated in 1886. The same year he matricu- lated with Rush Medical College of Chicago and was graduated in 1888. He began practice at Winslow, Ill., remaining there until 1891, then spent a year and a half at Berlin and Vienna, taking laboratory and elinieal work. On his return to the United States, he located at Anstin, Ill., where he remained until 1900, when he came to Eau Claire. He is now a member of the Ean Claire County and the Wisconsin State Medical societies.
Richard F. Werner, M. D.,* was born in Eau Claire, September 11, 1874, to Peter and Augusta (Kitzman) Werner. The parents of Peter Werner were natives of Germany and pioneer settlers of Sheboygan, Wis., and owned and operated the first saw mill there. He carried on lumbering until his death in 1854. The maternal grandfather, August Kitzman, a native of Germany, whose wife was Rose Otto, was among the pioneers of Eau Claire county. He was a farmer and lumberman, and died in 1898 at the age of 80 years. His wife died in 1911, aged 86 years. Peter Werner, father of our subjeet, came to Eau Claire in 1862 and followed lumbering also until he retired in 1902. He now resides in Los Angeles, Cal. There were five sons and three daughters in the family, viz: Charles, Richard F., Harriet, Henry, Otto H., Ewald, Helen, and Rose.
Dr. Werner was edueated in the public schools of Eau Claire and at the Beloit College. ITis medieal education was obtained at the Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1897. He began his practice at Augusta, remaining there until 1005, when he removed to Eau Claire. He married November 15, 1899, Agnes Keith, danghter of John and Agnes (Barland) Keith, and has three sons, Richard K., Keith, and Thomas. Dr. Werner is a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, the Eau Claire County Medical So- eiety, the Wiseonsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Congress of Surgeons of North America.
Frederick Sutton Cook, M. D., Eau Claire's well known special- ist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, is the son of Judge William Cook, one of the pioneer jurists of Davenport, Iowa, and Mary (Fletcher) Cook, natives of New York and Derbyshire, England, respectively.
Dr. Cook was born in Davenport, Iowa, July 16, 1880, was reared in that eity, receiving his primary edneation in the public schools. He afterward entered the Iowa State University Col-
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lege of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1906 with the degree of M. D. While attending college he acted as assistant to Professor L. W. Dean, of the university. He made a special study of diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, and in 1907 came to Ean Claire, where he has since built up a large and lucrative practice in these specializations, and has become well and favor- ably known.
On September 15, 1909, Dr. Cook was married to Ida Snyder, daughter of Samuel and Mary E. (Brown) Snyder, of Chippewa Falls. Dr. and Mrs. Cook have one danghter, Mary Elizabeth Cook. The doctor is a member of the Eau Claire Medical Society, president in 1914 the Wisconsin State Medical Society, West Wis- consin District Medical Society, the American Medical Associa- tion, and the Clinical Congress of Surgeons. Ile is prominently connected with Eau Claire Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Eau Claire Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M., Eau Claire. He is also a member of Commandery Knights Templars, a member of Germania Lodge, No. 49, Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Episcopal church.
Herman F. Derge, M. D. Standing prominent among the mem- bers of his profession in Ean Claire is Herman F. Derge, a son of Ferdinand and Ida (Schultz) Derge. Dr. Derge was born in Eau Claire, Wis., August 22, 1883. His paternal grandparents were Ferdinand and Angusta (Grewe) Derge, of the Province of Brandenburg, Germany, where the father was born January 25, 1855. IIe came to America in 1870, locating first in Milwaukee. In 1875 he engaged in the manufacture of eigars with his brother Julius at Eau Claire, which business he continued until his death, which occurred in 1891. His wife, mother of our subject, was a native of Milwaukee, and they were the parents of two sons, Ilerman F. and Ferdinand. Herman Schultz, maternal grand- father of Dr. Derge, a native of Germany, was a pioneer of the city of Milwaukee and later of Eau Claire, where he settled in 1860.
Dr. Derge was reared in this city, receiving his primary edu- cation in the publie schools, which was supplemented by a thor- ough course in the Wisconsin State University at Madison, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the medieal department of the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Md., graduating with first honors in the class of 1908. While at the University of Wisconsin he was elected to the honorary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. At the Johns Hopkins University a similar honor was
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bestowed upon him when he was made a member of the honorary medical fraternity, Alpha Omega Alpha. From 1908 to 1910 he practiced as house physician at the Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore. Returning to Eau Claire in 1910, he began practice with Dr. Lyman as a member of the firm of Lyman & Derge, and since 1912 as a member of the firm of Lyman, Derge, and Curtis.
Dr. Derge married September 8, 1909, Miss Margaret Ziegler, daughter of Dr. Charles B. and Jennie (Baker) Ziegler, of Balti- more, Md., and they have two children: Dorothy and Elizabeth. Dr. Derge stands high in his profession and in the social life of the community. Ile is a member of the Eau Claire County Med- ical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Wisconsin Surgical Society, and the American Medical Association, and is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity.
John F. Farr, M. D.,* of Eau Claire, is the son of Rufus and Ellen (Thomas) Farr, and was born at Wellsboro, Pa., March 15, 1862. His father, who was a native of Vermont, and his mother of Wales, came to Eau Claire in 1879, remaining here two years, whence in 1881 they located at Menomonie, Wis., where the father engaged in the hotel business, condneting the Menomonie House for several years. He later purchased the Merchants' Hotel, which he carried on until it was destroyed by fire, this being his second misfortune of the kind while a resident of Menomonie. After the destruction of the Merchants' Hotel, he went to Hudson, Wis., and there became the proprietor of the Chapin Hall Ilouse until 1895, when he retired from active business and returned to Eau Claire, where he died in 1902 at the age of 79 years. His family consisted of two sons, Frank, who is an attorney at law, occupies a prominent place in the legal profession of Eau Claire, and our subject.
Dr. Farr was reared in Blassburg, Pa., receiving his education in the public schools. He came to Eau Claire with his parents in 1879 and in 1881 embarked in the drug business with his brother Frank, under the firm name of Farr Brothers, in which business he continued until 1892. He entered the medical department of Hamlin University, Minneapolis, Minn., graduating therefrom in 1897. He practiced one year before coming to Eau Claire, and since 1898 has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in this city.
On March 23, 1888, Dr. Farr married Miss Anna, daughter of Albert C. Peck, of Eau Claire, by whom he has three children, Ellen, John, and Marion. The doctor is a member of the Eau Claire County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical So-
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ciety, and the American Medical Association. He has been health officer of Ean Claire since 1905. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Everett L. Mason, M. D., whose entire business career has been devoted to the practice of medicine, ranks among the leaders of his profession in Eau Claire county. lle was born in Eau Galle, Dunn county, Wisconsin, June 29, 1878. His parents, Edwin C. and Sarah Jane (Wilmarth) Mason, natives of Illinois and Athens, Ohio, respectively, settled in Dunn county, this state, about 1867, where the father purchased a farm and made his home until he retired from active labor, removing to Careyville, the same county, where he still resides.
Dr. Everett L. Mason was reared in Dunn county, receiving his education in the public schools and the high school of Me- nomonie. Ile subsequently spent three years as a teacher in the public schools of Dunn and Pepin county, and in the fall of 1899 began the study of medicine and was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathie Medical College with the class of 1903. After his graduation, he spent one and one-half years as interne in the Cook County (Illinois) Hospital, and in December, 1904, located in the city of Eau Claire, where he practiced his profession until 1908, at which time he took a post-graduate course at the North- western University of Chicago, graduating in the spring of 1909. He then returned to Eau Claire, where he has since been in an active and successful practice.
Dr. Mason married September 15, 1909, Miss Agnes Shumway, daughter of Arnold Shuiuway, of Janesville, Wis., and has one son, Robert Arnold. For five years past Dr. Mason has been president of the Eau Claire Anti-Tuberculosis Association; he is a member of the Eau Claire County Medical Society, Wisconsin State Medical and the American Medical Association. The doctor served as president of the Eau Claire County Medical Society for one year, and was for two years its secretary. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, and Grand Medical Examiner of the Beavers' Reserve Fund Fraternity.
William Montgomery, M. D., secretary of the Montgomery Hospital of Eau Claire, is a son of Alexander and Anna May Montgomery, natives of Glengary, Province of Ontario, Canada, and Eau Claire, respectively. Alexander Montgomery, father of William, is a graduate of the Illinois College of Medicine, and has been in the practice of his profession in Eau Claire since 1889. Ile founded the Montgomery Sanitarium in 1898, and the Mont-
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gomery Hospital in 1905, erecting the hospital buildings that year at a cost of $55,000, and since its completion the hospital has been constantly filled with patients. Its present officers are : Alexander Montgomery, Sr., president; John Montgomery, vice- president; William Montgomery, secretary, and Alexander Mont- gomery, Jr., treasurer. Mrs. Montgomery, mother of our subject, was a daughter of August Benick, a pioneer of Eau Claire. Doctor and Mrs. Montgomery are the parents of six children: William, Alexander, Jr., practicing in Milwaukee; John, practicing phy- sician in Eau Claire; Elizabeth, Agnes, and Robert.
Dr. William Montgomery was born in Eau Claire October 11, 1886. He was educated in the public schools of Eau Claire and the Hyde Park high school of Chicago, and later graduated from the medical department of the Illinois University, and has been in the active practice of his profession in Eau Claire. In 1911 he married Miss Alma, daughter of John Olson, of Eau Claire. The doctor is a member of the Eau Claire County Medical So- ciety, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Western District Medical Society of Wiscon- sin, the Knights of Columbus, Brotherhood of American Yeoman, and Equitable Fraternal Union.
John Lawrence Montgomery, M. D., who belongs to the younger class of practicing physicians of Eau Claire, was born in this city March 2, 1890. His father, Dr. Alexander Montgomery, one of the well known physicians of the city, is president of the Montgomery Hospital, which was established by him in 1905.
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